Own-wage labor supply elasticities: variation across time and estimation methods
Abstract There is a huge variation in the size of labor supply elasticities in the literature, which hampers policy analysis. While recent studies show that preference heterogeneity across countries explains little of this variation, we focus on two other important features: observation period and e...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2016-10-01
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Series: | IZA Journal of Labor Economics |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40172-016-0050-z |