We present a model of the time-allocation decision of spouses in order to study the role of heterogeneity in preferences and wages for couples' labor supply. Spouses differ in their tastes for market consumption and non-market goods and activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They...

The aggregate Frisch elasticity of labor supply has played a key role in business cycle analysis. This paper develops a statistical aggregation procedure which allows for worker heterogeneity in observables and unobservables and is applicable to an individual labor supply function with...

Rüdiger Soltwedel (et al.): Regulierungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt der Bundesrepublik. Kieler Studien (Band 233), Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel, herausgegeben von Horst Siebert. Verlag J. C. B. Mohr, Tübingen 1990. 267 Seiten, 66 DM (broschiert), 89 DM (Leinen)