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Author: Martinez-Granado, Maite
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1. Martinez-Granado, Maite
Testing Labour Supply and Hours Constraints
Labour Economics 12,3 (June 2005): 321-344.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537104000053
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Endogeneity; Labor Supply; Mobility, Job; Work Hours/Schedule

This paper provides empirical evidence that, at a given wage, individuals cannot freely choose the number of hours they work. The novelty relative to the existing literature (e.g. [Altonji, J., Paxson, C., 1986. Job characteristics and hours of work. In: Ehrenberg, R. (Ed.), Research in Labor Economics, vol. 8. Westview Press, Greenwich, 1-55]) is twofold. We use the US data on prime age males from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and we account for endogenous switching between jobs. Our results are: (i) the variance of the change in hours worked is more than six times higher for movers than for stayers; (ii) the intertemporal labour supply elasticity is positive and significant for movers and zero for stayers. This is further evidence for the presence of hours constraints. One important implication is that estimates of the labour supply elasticity that ignore these constraints are biased. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR; Copyright 2005 Elsevier]
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Martinez-Granado, Maite. "Testing Labour Supply and Hours Constraints." Labour Economics 12,3 (June 2005): 321-344.