| Titre | Y a-t-il une division du travail dans la famille élargie ? | |
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| Auteur | Catherine Sofer, Michel Picot, Guy Lacroix | |
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Revue | Economie et prévision |
| Numéro | no 121, 1995/5 Comportements des ménages | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Transferts intergénérationnels |
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| Page | 87-100 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Is There a Division of Labour in the Extended Family?
by Guy Lacroix, Michel Picot and Catherine Sofer.
Labour supply analysis has shown the need to shift from the individual to the household, and then from the unitary household to the household as a place of strategic interactions. Yet is the household really the appropriate reference unit to be considering? Or should an analysis integrate additional data on the extended family (grandparents, adult children and households of one brother or one sister) in which a certain number of households interact and exchange a certain number of services? This article proposes a labour supply model focusing on the extended family and based on the use of a single utility function for the extended family. We test the hypothesis of a Ricardian division of labour in the extended family based on the estimate of a reduced version of the initial model and using a survey by INSEE, Gedisst and the CNRS to analyze exchanges between members of the family network. The results confirm the time allocation model in the extended family and thus the existence of interaction between the behaviour of the different households making up the extended family. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/ecop_0249-4744_1995_num_121_5_5762 |
