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Aggregation with sequential indivisible and continuous labor supply decisions and an informal sector

The purpose of this paper is to explore the problem of non-convex labor supply decision in an economy with both discrete and continuous labor decisions. In contrast to the setup in Vasilev (2016a), here each household faces a sequential labor market choice - an indivisible labor supply choice in the market sector, and conditional on non-working in the o fficial sector, a divisible hours choice in the informal sector. We show how lotteries as in Rogerson (1988) can again be used to convexify consumption sets, and aggregate over individual preferences. With a mix of sequential discrete and continuous labor supply decisions, aggregate disutility of non-market work becomes separable from market work, and the elasticity of the latter increases from unity to in finity.

Sprache
Englisch

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Informal Labor Markets
Thema
Aggregation
Indivisible Labor
Discrete-continuous mix
Informal economy

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Vasilev, Aleksandar
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
(wo)
Kiel und Hamburg
(wann)
2017

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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  • Preprint

Beteiligte

  • Vasilev, Aleksandar
  • ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft

Entstanden

  • 2017

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