estimation bias is less pronounced for secondary than for primary earners. The reason is that, in households with two earners and … to borrow than wage-rate changes of the primary earner. We illustrate the differential estimation bias in the framework …

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 …

work is allowed to vary by occupation and also by shift type in the utility function. Furthermore, we allow the preference …

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 …

assumptions about the long run effect of wage rates on labor supply. The available estimates of the wage elasticity of male labor … function. Our estimates suggest that the elasticity of labor supply is about -0.2, implying that income effects dominate …

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 …

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