In this paper, we adopt the usual assumptions of the collective approach, i.e. individualism and efficiency, to study household labor supply. The theoretical innovation is twofold. First, we incorporate the decision to participate in the labor market in the initial setting. Second, we abandon...

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,...