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 …

the micro level means that the aggregate labour supply elasticity is not a structural parameter: any aggregate elasticity …

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 …

This study examines the determinants of the reservation wage of unemployed persons in the Federal Republic of Germany …

In a seminal paper, Camerer, Babcock, Loewenstein, and Thaler (1997) find that the wage elasticity of daily hours of …

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 …

strong evidence of rent-sharing, with a "Lester range" of variation in wages between profitable and unprofitable firms of …

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 …

paper shows that UI extensions at age thresholds reduced reemployment wages of job searchers in Germany. The UI extensions …This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …