Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192386 
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Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 404
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the labor market participation behavior of retiring couples in Norway. To account for the unobserved heterogeneity in decision-making structure within the household, I formulate a mixed model by assuming there are two types of households, the cooperative type and the non-cooperative type. I assume that non-cooperative households behave according to a Stackelberg game with the male as the leader, while cooperative households engage in a cooperative bargaining process. The estimation results show that more than half of the households are of the non-cooperative type.
Subjects: 
household labor supply
retirement
unobserved heterogeneity
mixed model
JEL: 
D10
J26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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