Analyzing Labor Supply Behavior with Latent Job Opportunity Sets and Institutional Choice Constraints

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 344

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Model Construction and Estimation
• Subject: Labor supply ; non-convex budget sets ; non-pecuniary job-attributes ; sector-specific wages.

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Dagsvik, John K. ; Strøm, Steinar
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Statistics Norway, Research Department
• (where): Oslo
• (when): 2003

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/192326
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET