This paper presents new general results in collective models with household production. We show that the identification of the sharing rule, obtained in Chiappori, Fortin and Lacroix (2002) using a standard labor supply model, can be extended to a model including household production, thus based...

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 studies earnings disparities by language group for males in the Ottawa-Hull region using data from the 1981 census. After in a first stage making comparisons of mean earnings, the study then proceeds with regression analysis. The dependent variable is the logarithm of earnings in 1980...