This paper provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the impact of the marriage market and divorce legislation on household labor supply. In our approach, the sex ratio on the marragie market and the rules governing divorce are examples of distribution factors. The latter are defined as...

Recently, a new theoretical framework has been proposed to analyze the behavior of households composed of two adults. This approach, usually referred to has the collective model, assumes that spouses have distinct preferences and that household decisions are Pareto efficient. So far, most...

This paper tests the unitary and the collective household labor supply models within a structural framework. A nonlinear unrestricted household labor supply system is postulated and the set of parametric restrictions imposed by each model is derived. The authors' results generally reject the...

Recent theoretical work on labor supply has shown that the tax and transfer system can induce some individuals to work in the irregular labor market. Models designed to represent such behavior are unable to sign unambiguously the impact of the marginal tax rate as well as many key exogenous...

We investigate the impact of working in the underground sector on the demand for underground commodities. Using a tax evasion model with costly information, we show that the presence of a network effect encourages underground workers to purchase underground commodities. The model is estimated...

Qui a les moyens d'engager un travailleur de la construction pour faire rénover sa cuisine ou réparer son toit, de le payer au taux officiel et d'ajouter TPS et TVQ ?Qui a déjà résisté à l'offre de rémunérer à un prix raisonnable un service en payant « sous la table » ? Qui n'a...

Changes in parameters of tax and transfer programs can induce individuals to alter their behaviour in a wide variety of ways, including changes in labour supply, in the nature of employee compensation, in the choice of working in the underground economy, in savings decisions, in human capital...

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated children through the "caring preferences" of their...

This paper provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the impact of the marriage market and divorce legislation on household labor supply. In our approach, the sex ratio in the marriage market and the rules governing divorce are examples of "distribution factors." These factors are defined...

Récemment, un nouveau cadre théorique d'analyse s'est développé dans le but d'analyser les comportements des ménages avec deux conjoints. Cette approche, qualifiée de modèle collectif, suppose que chaque conjoint a des préférences individuelles et que les choix du ménage sont...