In this paper, we deal with female labour supply in the collective framework. We study married couples and start from the empirical observation that the husband's labour supply is generally fixed at full-time. We then show that, in this case, structural elements of the decision process, such as...

We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic production is mistakenly ignored, the collectiveʺ indirect utilities that are retrieved from observed behavior will be unbiased if and only if the profit function is additive....

We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic production is mistakenly ignored, the "collective" indirect utilities that are retrieved from observed behavior will be unbiased if and only if the profit function is additive....

In this paper, we deal with female labour supply in the collective framework. We study married couples and start from the empirical observation that the husband's labour supply is generally fixed at full-time. We then show that, in this case, structural elements of the decision process, such as...