In the present paper, we adopt the usual assumptions of the collective approach, that is, individualism and efficiency, in order to study household labor supply. The theoretical innovation is twofold. First, we incorporate in the initial setting the participation decision to the labor market....

In the present paper, we develop a new approach to deal with female labor supply in the so-called collective framework. It is often empirically observed that the husband's labor supply is fixed at full-time or determined by demand-side constraints. From this observation, we elaborate a model...

In this paper, we argue that many of the rigidities that characterize European labour markets can be understood as the outcome of political influence by incumbent employees. We then empirically investigate the determinants of labour market institutions and show that the results are consistent...

We develop a model to analyse the implications of firing costs on international specialization.