TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Blundell, Richard
AU  - Chiappori, Pierre-André
AU  - Magnac, Thierry
AU  - Meghir, Costas
        TI  - Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Nonparticipation
        PY  - 2005/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1785
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1785
        AB  - We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are discrete choices, censoring of hours and nonparticipation in employment. We derive the collective restrictions on labour supply functions and contrast them with restrictions implied by the usual "unitary" framework. Using the large changes in the wage structure between men and women in the UK over the last two decades we estimate a collective labor supply model for married couples without children. The implications of the unitary framework are rejected while those of the collective approach are not. The estimates of the sharing rule show that wages have a strong influence on bargaining power within couples.
        KW  - collective models
KW  - labor supply
        ER  -