van Soest, A.H.O.; Das, J.W.M.; Gong, X. - Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management - 2001
We show how non-parametric flexibility can be attained in a structural labour supply model that can be used to analyse all sorts of (non-linear) tax and benefits reforms. The direct utility function is approximated with a series expansion. For given length of the expansion, the model is...