Female Labor Supply with Taxation, Random Preferences, and Optimization Errors

Arrufat, José Luis; Zabalza, A.

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“…Burtless and Hausman (1978) explicitly take into account the differently sloped segments of the kinked budget curve by linking the choice of segment to the indirect utility function. This method is frequently used in labour supply studies in the 1980s and 1990s, such as Hausman (1980Hausman ( , 1981; Blomquist (1983); Hausman and Ruud (1984); Arrufat and Zabalza (1986); Blomquist and Hansson-Brusewitz (1990); Bourguignon and Magnac (1990); Colombino and del Boca (1990); Triest (1990);van Soest et al (1990); Flood and MaCurdy (1992); Kuismanen (1997) and Woittiez and Kapteyn (1998). MaCurdy et al (1990) criticise the Hausman method for imposing too strong a priori restrictions on the outcomes.…”

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The Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply: A Synthesis of Empirical Estimates

2008

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SummaryThis paper performs a meta-analysis of empirical estimates of uncompensated labour supply elasticities. For the Netherlands, we find that an elasticity of 0.5 for women and 0.1 for men is a good reflection of what the literature reveals. The elasticity for men hardly differs between countries, but for women some cross-country variation is found. The increasing participation rate of women may lead to a somewhat lower elasticity in the future. Both the specification of the hours function and the estimation method are found to affect elasticity estimates.

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Section: The Empirical Literature On Labour Supply Elasticitiesmentioning

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The Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply: A Synthesis of Empirical Estimates

2008

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“…1 Fixed costs of working and tax deductions if working contribute to these nonconvexities. Attempts to take the non-convexity properties of the tax structure into account include Burtless and Hausman (1978), Blomquist (1983), (1992), Arrufat and Zabalza (1986), Hausman (1980, (1985), and Hausman and Ruud (1984). In principle it is possible to apply the "Hausman approach" to account for nonlinear and non-convex budget sets.…”

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Sectoral labour supply, choice restrictions and functional form

Dagsvik

Strøm

2006

J of Applied Econometrics

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In this paper we discuss a general framework for analyzing labor supply behavior in the presence of complicated budget-and quantity constraints of which some are unobserved. The point of departure is that an individual's labor supply decision can be considered as a choice from a set of discrete alternatives (jobs). These jobs are characterized by attributes such as hours of work, sector specific wages and other sector specific aspects of the jobs. We focus in particular on theoretical justification of functional form assumptions and properties of the random components of the model. The paper includes an empirical application based on Norwegian data, in which the labor supply of married women is estimated.JEL classification: J22,C51.Key words: Labor supply, non-convex budget sets, non-pecuniary job-attributes, sector-specific wages. ___________________________________ * Statistics Norway, Oslo. E-mail: john.dagsvik@ssb.no ** Department of Economics, University of Oslo. E-mail: steinar.strom@econ.uio.no We are indebted to Tom Wennemo for skillful programming assistance and Rolf Aaberge for constructive critisism throughout the revision process. We thank two anonymous referees and the editor for useful comments and helpful suggestions.We also thank James J. Heckman for valuable comments on an earlier version of the paper and Anne Skoglund for proof reading and word processing. S.Strøm is grateful to ICER, Turin, for providing excellent working conditions. 2

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“…Up to the nineties, labor supply was modeled in a continuous way, see Hausman and Ruud (1986) and Arrufat and Zabalza (1986), where the household chooses from a continuous set of hours. However, an important drawback of this methodology is that individuals may choose their optimal point anywhere along the budget constraint (see e.g.…”

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Maternal employment: the impact of triple rationing in childcare

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This paper analyses how maternal labor supply relates to the availability of childcare services in Flanders, a region that has a fairly abundant service provision, but does not offer a service guarantee as in several Nordic countries. Variation in price/quantity bundles that stems from the interplay of three types of childcare services are used to identify mothers' labor supply responses. The estimates indicate that policy measures which increase the availability may exhibit large labor supply effects. Moreover, budgetary simulations suggest the expansion of subsidised care services to be beneficial to the exchequer.Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article

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Female Labor Supply with Taxation, Random Preferences, and Optimization Errors

Cited by 79 publications

References 6 publications

The Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply: A Synthesis of Empirical Estimates

The Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply: A Synthesis of Empirical Estimates

Sectoral labour supply, choice restrictions and functional form

Maternal employment: the impact of triple rationing in childcare

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