Arbeitspapier

Extensive and intensive margins of labour supply: Working hours in the US, UK and France

This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the extensive and intensive margins. This decomposition is also shown to be coherent with the analysis of labour supply elasticities at these margins. We use detailed representative micro-datasets to examine the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins in explaining the overall changes in total hours worked.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6051

Classification
Wirtschaft
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Subject
labor supply
employment
hours of work
Arbeitsangebot
Arbeitszeit
USA
Großbritannien
Frankreich

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Blundell, Richard
Bozio, Antoine
Laroque, Guy
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2011

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201111029379
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Blundell, Richard
  • Bozio, Antoine
  • Laroque, Guy
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2011

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