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Using a revealed preference approach applied to administrative data from Washington we document that workers have limited discretion over hours at a given employer, there is substantial mismatch between workers who prefer long hours and employers that provide short hours, and hour constraints...
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Few skilled workers in the UK have flexible working time - GPs are the exception - most can only choose between unemployment, or full-time work, which has changed little in recent years, while part time work is mainly unskilled. This market rigidity imposes major welfare losses, in contrast to...
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analysis is based on a structural labour supply model which incorporates unobserved heterogeneity, fixed costs of work and the … which only earnings (and non-labour income) are observable to the government. The empirical motivation is the earned income …
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This paper examines the role of home production in estimating life-cycle labor supply. I show that, consistent with previous studies, ignoring an individual's time spent on home production when estimating the Frisch elasticity of labor supply biases its estimate downwards. I also show, however,...
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preferences and wages for couples' labor supply. Spouses differ in their tastes for market consumption and non-market goods and … significantly larger if the wage shock is asymmetric across partners, not symmetric. Aggregating preferences and wages by gender and …
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Most empirical studies on the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a … estimates are used to evaluate various model outcomes, like the wage elasticities of labour supply and the impacts of wage … pooling of men's earnings and the household's non-labour income in the female's budget constraint. These differences in …
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Most empirical studies on the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a … estimates are used to evaluate various model outcomes, like the wage elasticities of labour supply and the impacts of wage … pooling of men's earnings and the household's non-labour income in the female's budget constraint. These differences in …
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desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification of preferences and constraints. Both, preferences and …
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desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification of preferences and constraints. Both, preferences and …
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intratemporal first-order condition for labor. Allowing for a realistic degree of involuntary unemployment, coupled with preferences …
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