What Explains the Variation in Estimates of Labour Supply Elasticities?
By Michiel Evers, Ruud A. De Mooij, D. Vuuren. Social Science Research Network, 2006
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This paper performs a meta-analysis of empirical estimates of uncompensated labour supply elasticities. We find that much of the variation in elasticities can be explained by the variation in gender, participation rates, and country fixed effects. Country differences appear to be small though. There is no systematic impact of the model specification or marital status on reported elasticities. The decision to participate is more responsive than is the decision regarding hours worked. Even at the intensive margin, we find that the elasticity for women exceeds that for men. For men and women in the Netherlands, we predict an uncompensated labour supply elasticity of 0.1 (or 0.2 if an alternative specification is preferred) and 0.5, respectively. These values are robust for alternative samples and specifications of the meta regression.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, General Health Professions
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- The Role of Labor Markets for Euro Area Monetary Policy (2009, unknown): “…process is set to 13 The elasticity of inter-temporal substitution of labor, 1/ϕ, is small in most microeconomic studies (between 0 and 0.5) for the euro area; for details, see Evers, Mooij, and Vuuren (2005), who report statistics based on a meta sample as well as estimates based on Dutch data.”
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