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The Wage Elasticity of Informal Care Supply : Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Nizalova, Olena Y. - 2010

wave of the Health and Retirement Study, the results show that the wage elasticity of informal care supply is negative and … larger in magnitude than has been found previously. The lower bound of this elasticity is estimated to be -1.8 for males and … -3.6 for females. Additional findings suggest that the wage elasticity of informal care supply differs by the type of …

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Estimating the Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply to a Firm : What Evidence is There for Monopsony?

Booth, Alison L. - 2010

In this paper we estimate the elasticity of the labour supply to a firm, using data from the Household, Income and … Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Estimation of this elasticity is of particular interest not only in its own … immediately losing their workforce. This is in contrast to the perfectly competitive extreme, in which the elasticity is infinite …

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What Do Participation Fluctuations Tell Us About Labor Supply Elasticities?

Haefke, Christian - 2011

labor supply elasticity. For this purpose, we extend the standard labor market matching model to allow for endogenous … correlation of unemployment and GDP, implies an aggregate labor supply elasticity along the extensive margin of around 0.3 for men …

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Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US

Bargain, Olivier - 2011

Despite numerous studies on labor supply, the size of elasticities is rarely comparable across countries. In this paper, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison of elasticities, while netting out possible differences due to methods, data selection and the period of...

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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US : New Results

Bargain, Olivier - 2012

We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that own-wage...

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Nurses' Labour Supply Elasticities : The Importance of Accounting for Extensive Margins

Broadway, Barbara - 2012

Many countries face a continuing shortage in nurses' labour supply. Previous research suggests that nurses respond only weakly to changes in wages. We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing qualification holders' labour supply in different occupations. A structural approach allows us to model...

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Comparing Inequality Aversion Across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Bargain, Olivier - 2013

We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when controlling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...

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Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities

Kneip, Alois - 2013

The aggregate Frisch elasticity of labor supply has played a key role in business cycle analysis. This paper develops a … Frisch elasticity and illustrate its main components: (i) the intensive and extensive adjustment of hours worked, (ii) the … panel data model of individual hours worked. Our estimated aggregate Frisch elasticity varies between .63 and .70. These …

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Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities : A Survey

Bargain, Olivier - 2013

choices in explaining the large variation in elasticity size observed across studies. While some recent studies show that …

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Does Labor Supply Respond to a Flat Tax? Evidence from the Russian Tax Reform

Duncan, Denvil - 2009

We exploit the exogenous change in marginal tax rates created by the Russian flat tax reform of 2001 to identify the effect of taxes on labor supply of males and females. We apply the weighted difference-in-difference regression approach and instrumental variables to the labor supply function...

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