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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Olivier Bargain, Andreas Peichl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-10-01
Series:IZA Journal of Labor Economics
Subjects:
USA
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40172-016-0050-z