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. Reservation wages are derived from an explicit utility function in which the most critical taste parameter is assumed to vary both … systematically and randomly across individuals. Market wages are derived from a standard wage equation adjusted to the special … market and reservation wages) and the incentives set up by private pension plans are estimated to be major causes of …
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assumptions about the long run effect of wages rates on labor supply. The available estimates of the wage elasticity of male labor … which men can change their hours of work, and in which wages have been exogenously and permanently changed. We introduce a … function. Our estimates suggest that the elasticity of labor supply is about -0.2, implying that income effects dominate …
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the micro level means that the aggregate labour supply elasticity is not a structural parameter: any aggregate elasticity …
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labor supply elasticities were small, recent work has identified three key reasons that the aggregate elasticity may be … estimates for aggregate labor supply. Third, structural estimation of responses along the extensive (i.e., employment) margin …
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We measure the impact of measurement error in labor-supply elasticities estimated over recalled usual work hours, as is ubiquitous in the literature. Employing hours of work in diaries collected by the American Time Use Survey, 2003-12, along with the same respondents' recalled usual hours, we...
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of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at Veterans Affairs hospitals as a natural experiment to investigate … supply to individual hospitals is quite inelastic, with short-run elasticity around 0.1. We also find that non-VA hospitals … responded to the VA wage change by changing their own wages …
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provinces. We examine monthly data on employment, wages, and hours across 8 industries and 10 provinces over the 1961- 1975 … period. We find that employment actually rose after the introduction of NHI; wages increased as well, while average hours …
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strong evidence of rent-sharing, with a "Lester range" of variation in wages between profitable and unprofitable firms of …
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This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self-reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …
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A model is presented in which people base their labor search strategy on the average wage and the average unemployment duration of people who belong to their peer group. It is shown that, if the distribution of wage offers is not stationary so lower wage offers tend to arrive before higher wage...
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