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Comparing labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US: New results

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 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

Hanel, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Scott, Anthony - 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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Labour supply and taxes: New estimates of the responses of wives to husbands' wages

Dostie, Benoit; Kromann, Lene - 2012

In this paper, we estimate income- and substitution- labour supply and participation elasticities for Canadian married women using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1996-2005. We use the Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator (CTaCS) and detailed information on the structure of...

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Wage Elasticity of the Teacher Supply in Switzerland

Wolter, Stefan C.; Denzler, Stefan - 2003

In order to learn more about the wage elasticity of the teacher supply in Switzerland, this paper estimates wages for …-1999. The data allows us to estimate the wage elasticity for entry wages of upper secondary school teachers. In the cases … examined, the wage differential is highly significant and shows a wage elasticity for the teacher supply of 0.12% to 0 …

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Overtime Work Dual Job Holding and Taxation

Frederiksen, Anders; Graversen, Ebbe Krogh; Smith, Nina - 2001

Traditionally, labour supply data do not include much information on hours and wages in secondary job or overtime work. In this paper, we estimate labour supply models based on survey information on hours and wages in overtime work and second job which is merged to detailed register information...

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The responsiveness of remittances to the oil price: the case of the GCC

Naufal, George S.; Termos, Ali - 2009

price elasticity of remittances is around 0.4. While most studies have examined the impact of remittances on the real …

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Classic Monopsony or New Monopsony? : Searching for Evidence in Nursing Labor Markets

Schumacher, Edward J.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2004

The market for hospital registered nurses (RNs) is often offered as an example of ?classic? monopsony, while a ?new? monopsony literature emphasizes firm labor supply being upwardsloping for reasons other than market structure. Using data from several sources, we explore the relationship between...

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Gender Based Taxation and the Division ofFamily Chores

Alesina, Alberto; Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey´s optimal criterion by taxing less the moreelastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between menand women are taken as exogenous and primitive...

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Elasticity of supply to the firm and the business cycle

Depew, Briggs; Sorensen, Todd - 2011

A body of recent empirical work has found strong evidence that the labor elasticity of supply to the firm is finite … inter-war period, we are able to estimate the elasticity of supply to the firm during several recessions and expansions. Our … analysis suggests that the elasticity is indeed lower during recessions, consistent with the comparative statics from the …

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What do participation fluctuations tell us about labor supply elasticities?

Haefke, Christian; Reiter, Michael - 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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