. 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 …

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 …

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 …