| Titre | Estimation d'un système complet de demandes de biens et d'offre de travail pour un échantillon de ménages français | |
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| Auteur | Matthias Ruth, François Laisney, Richard Blundell | |
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Revue | Economie et prévision |
| Numéro | no 110-111, 1993/4-5 Fiscalité et redistribution | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Fiscalité et redistribution |
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| Page | 151-168 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Estimation of a Comprehensive System of Goods Demand and Labour Supply for a Sample of French Households,
by Richard Blundell, François Laisney and Matthias Ruth.
In order to obtain a comprehensive demand system compatible with life-cycle decisions, previously obtained estimation results for the married-woman labour supply are used to identify the virtually homothetic preference parameters defined for 16 categories of goods estimated for a sample of married-couple households taken from the INSEE Budget des Familles 1978-1979 survey. Four systems are differentiated according to whether or not the household reports purchases in the tobacco and alcohol categories. The other possible zero outlays are treated as resulting from the "purchase infrequency" phenomenon. Minimal consumption is parameterized in great detail according to socio-demographic characteristics, by placintg the emphasis on a symmetrical handling of the characteristics of the husband and the wife. Diagnoses of the hypothesis of the separability of leisure and goods preferences, on which the adopted estimation strategy is based, clearly reject the hypothesis for the four goods categories of "clothing dans shoes", "durables", "transport and communication" and "VAT-reduced rate services". This result could be due to the existence of fixed business costs for these goods categories. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/ecop_0249-4744_1993_num_110_4_5639 |
