TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Knowles, John
        TI  - Why Are Married Men Working So Much? Home Production, Household Bargaining and Per-Capita Hours
        PY  - 2007/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2909
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2909
        AB  - Empirical patterns of labor supply at the micro level tend to reject the unitary model assumption implicit in most macro theories, where households are the deemed to be rational agents. This paper examines the rise in per-capita labor since 1975 and asks how the inclusion of bargaining between spouses in a standard macro model would alter the analysis of recent trends in aggregate labor supply. The main findings are that the stationarity of married men’s work hours reflects weakening of men’s bargaining position as women’s wages rose, and that the unitary model seriously overstates the response of aggregate labor to trends in relative wages.
        KW  - general aggregative models: neoclassical
KW  - time allocation and labor supply
KW  - economics of gender
KW  - marriage
KW  - marital dissolution
        ER  -