Collective Female Labor Supply: Theory and Application

No 141, Cahiers de recherche CREFE / CREFE Working Papers from CREFE, Université du Québec à Montréal

Abstract: In this paper, we deal with female labour supply in the collective framework (Chiappori, Journal of Political Economy (1992)). We study married couples and start from the empirical observation that the husband's labour supply is generally determined by exogenous constraints. We then show that, in this case, structural elements of the decision process, such as individual preferences or the rule that determines the intra-household distribution of welfare, can be identified if household demand for at least one commodity, together with the wife's labour supply, is observed. These theoretical considerations are followed by an empirical application using French data.

Dans cet article, nous traitons la question de l'offre féminine de travail dans le cadre de l'approche collective (Chiappori, Journal of Political Economy (1992)). Nous étudions des couples mariés et partons de l'observation empirique que l'offre de travail du mari est généralement déterminée par des contraintes exogènes. Nous montrons alors que, dans ce cas, des éléments structurels du processus de décision, tels que les préférences individuelles or la règle qui détermine la répartition intra-familiale du bien-être peut-être identifiée à condition que la demande pour au moins un bien est observée conjointement avec l'offre de travail. Ces considérations théoriques sont suivies par une application empirique utilisant des données françaises.

Keywords: Collective Decisions; Female labour Supply; Commodity Demands; Intra-household Distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2001-09
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