We present a structural empirical model of collective household labour supply.Following recent developments in the … literature on collective household labour sup-ply our model allows for the nonparticipation decision, along with the choiceof … applicationof the collective household labour supply model. The model is estimated using apaneldata set of Dutch couples. The …

to get access to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we … find that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources …. In particular, unemployment delays the setting up of an individual household of young people, in some cases by decades …

-earners. About 24% of American women in dual-earner households earned more than their husband in 2004. Using a model of household … may also come into play. Our empirical model specifies spouse labour-market participation equations within each household …

utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household … propensities to engage in associative activity depend on the availability of Suitable Leisure Companions outside the household. Our …

The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra-household …. The first step in the exposition is to show that the neglect of these data in much of the literature on household behavior …

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while … spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six …

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while … spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six …

household consumption economies of scale increase as the living standard of a household increases. …

measures. We retrieve individual and household specific preference heterogeneity, by estimating a structural discrete choice …