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.
- Language
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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
 
- Event
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                Geistige Schöpfung
 
- (who)
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                Blesch, Maximilian
Eisenhauer, Philipp
Haan, Peter
Ilieva, Boryana
Schrenker, Annekatrin
Weizsäcker, Georg
 
- Event
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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
 
- (where)
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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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