Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Nonparticipation

Richard Blundell (), Pierre Chiappori (), Thierry Magnac () and Costas Meghir ()

No 1785, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are discrete choices, censoring of hours and nonparticipation in employment. We derive the collective restrictions on labour supply functions and contrast them with restrictions implied by the usual "unitary" framework. Using the large changes in the wage structure between men and women in the UK over the last two decades we estimate a collective labor supply model for married couples without children. The implications of the unitary framework are rejected while those of the collective approach are not. The estimates of the sharing rule show that wages have a strong influence on bargaining power within couples.

Keywords: collective models; labor supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D11 D12 D13 D70 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dcm and nep-ltv
Date: 2005-09
View list of references View citations in EconPapers

Downloads: (external link)
ftp://repec.iza.org/RePEc/Discussionpaper/dp1785.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Collective labour supply: heterogeneity and non-participation (1998)
Working Paper: Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Nonparticipation (2005)
Working Paper: Collective Labor Supply: Heterogeneity and Nonparticipation (2002)
Working Paper: Collective Labor Supply: Heterogeneity and Nonparticipation (2001)
Working Paper: Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Non-Participation (2005)
Journal Article: Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Non-Participation (2007)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp1785

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Address: IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Mark Fallak ().