作者:Fong, YF; Zhang, JS
作者单位:Boston University; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要:This paper is based on the idea that for each partner in a marriage, there are two distinct types of leisure. One type is each person's independent (or private) leisure, and the other type is spousal leisure, whose importance has long been emphasized in the literature of psychology. While each type of leisure is unobservable (only total leisure is observed), it is shown that the recent collective models of the intrahousehold allocation initiated by Chiappori can be extended to identify each ty...
作者:Saint-Paul, G
作者单位:Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Pompeu Fabra University; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要:I study the earnings structure and the equilibrium assignment of workers when workers exert intrafirm spillovers on each other. I allow for arbitrary spillovers provided that output depends on some aggregate index of workers' skill. Despite the possibility of increasing returns to skills, equilibrium typically exists. I show that equilibrium will typically be segregated and that the skill space can be partitioned into a set of segments and any firm hires from only one segment. Next, I apply th...