Du fait du vieillissement de la population, l’emploi des seniors devient un enjeu primordial de la politique du travail dans les pays européens. Retarder l’âge de fin d’activité permettrait d’augmenter le niveau de production et d’équilibrer les systèmes de retraite sans réduire...

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Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption by home production, but do not consider joint behaviour of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production of both partners in a couple. Our identification...

In the literature on partners' joint retirement decisions one of the explanations for joint retirement is externalities in leisure. Exploiting the law on early retirement age in France, we use a regression discontinuity approach to identify the causal effect of retirement on hours of leisure,...

We study the impact of income taxation on both partners’ allocation of time to market work and unpaid house work in households with two adults. We estimate a structural household utility model in which the marginal utilities of leisure and house work of both partners are modelled as random...

This paper aims at carrying out an international comparison of fathers’ caring time. The time fathers dedicate to caring for their children is typically constrained by the longer working hours culture and the lesser incentives for fathers to take up childcare leave. This paper draws a...