One purpose of the project is to develop more general empirical models of household labour supply, where the spouses are allowed to have different preferences. It is possible to show that the neoclassical model is a special case of the Nash Bargaining model, which can be interpreted such that labour supply behaviour and consumption are the outcome of a bargaining process in the household. Another purpose of the project is, therefore, to discriminate between the general model and its special case - the neoclassical model. For men, the peak occurs at full time employment, while there are peaks at half time, three quarters of full time and full time for women. The purpose of the project is to study why apparently different individuals tend to behave in a similar way with regard to their hours of work.
Interdependent behaviour relates to the presence of social norms.
Quantity constraints are usually related to the demand side of the labour market. This means that restrictions imposed by employers may force individuals to choose between discrete points, when they decide how much labour to supply. The project focus on the Swedish labour market and its conditions, wages as well as working-conditions in general, for women. The wage-differentials between men and women in the Swedish labour market will be analysed through investigating why jobs dominated by women are lower rewarded than jobs dominated by men. The project is also focusing on the issue of comparable worth.