François Laisney

Does the Representation of Household Behavior Matter for Welfare Analysis of Tax-benefit Policies? An Introduction (2006)

Bargain, Olivier, Beblo, Miriam, Beninger, Denis, Blundell, Richard, Carrasco, Raquel [rcarras], Chiuri, Maria-Concetta, ...

A widely shared intuition holds that individual control over money matters for the decision process within the household and the subsequent distribution of resources and welfare. As a consequence,...

Collective Models of Labor Supply with Nonconvex Budget Sets and Nonparticipation: A Calibration Approach (2006)

Bargain, Olivier, Beblo, Miriam, Beninger, Denis, Blundell, Richard, Carrasco, Raquel [rcarras], Chiuri, Maria-Concetta, ...

We suggest a methodology to calibrate a collective model with household-specific bargaining rules and marriage-specific preferences that incorporate leisure externalities. The empirical...

The Working Familias tax credit and some European tax reforms in a collective setting (2006)

Bargain, Olivier, Beblo, Miriam, Beninger, Denis, Blundell, Richard, Carrasco, Raquel [rcarras], Chiuri, Maria-Concetta, ...

A framework for simplified implementation of the collective model of labor supply decisions is presented in the context of fiscal reforms in the UK. Through its collective form the model accounts for...

Evaluating the Move to a Linear Tax System in Germany and Other European Countries (2006)

Beninger, Denis, Bargain, Olivier, Beblo, Miriam, Blundell, Richard, Carrasco, Raquel [rcarras], Chiuri, Maria-Concetta, ...

This paper proposes a comparison of the results of tax policy analysis obtained on the basis of unitary and collective representations of the household. We first generate labour supplies consistent...

Work and welfare of single mothers in Germany (1999)

Gerhard Wagenhals, Matthias Staat, Michael Lechner, François Laisney

Cet article s’intéresse au rôle des facteurs économiques dans la détermination de l’offre de travail et de la dépendance vis à vis des prestations sociales des mères iisolées en...

Bayesian estimation of Cox models with non-nested random effects: an application to the ratification of ILO conventions by developing countries

Bernhard Boockmann., Dragana Djurdjevic., Guillaume Horny., François Laisney.

We use a multivariate hazard model to analyse the ratification behaviour of ILO conventions by developing countries. The model accounts for two random effects: one at the country level, the other at...