Arbeitspapier
Biased Wage Expectations and Female Labor Supply
Wage growth occurs almost exclusively in full-time work, whereas it is close to zero in part-time work. German women, when asked to predict their own potential wage outcomes, show severely biased expectations with strong over-optimism about the returns to part-time experience. We estimate a structural life-cycle model to quantify how beliefs influence labor supply, earnings and welfare over the life cycle. The bias increases part-time employment strongly, induces flatter long-run wage profiles, and substantially influences the employment effects of a widely discussed policy reform, the introduction of joint taxation. The most significant impact of the bias appears for college-educated women.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 411
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Education and Inequality
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- Subject
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returns to experience
biased beliefs
part-time work
dynamic life-cycle models
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Blesch, Maximilian
Eisenhauer, Philipp
Haan, Peter
Ilieva, Boryana
Schrenker, Annekatrin
Weizsäcker, Georg
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
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München und Berlin
- (when)
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2023
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Blesch, Maximilian
- Eisenhauer, Philipp
- Haan, Peter
- Ilieva, Boryana
- Schrenker, Annekatrin
- Weizsäcker, Georg
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
Time of origin
- 2023
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