| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w1638 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 1638 |
| Hours Restrictions and Labor Supply | |
| William T. Dickens; Shelly J. Lundberg | |
| 发表日期 | 1985-06-01 |
| 出版年 | 1985 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This study presents a model of labor supply in which individuals may face constraints on their choice of work hours, and analyzes the sensitivity of parameter estimates and policy conclusions to the usual assumption of unrestricted choice. We set up the labor supply decision asa discrete choice problem, where each worker faces a finite number of employment opportunities, each offering fixed hours of work.The distribution from which these are drawn, as well as the number of draws, is estimated along with the behavioral parameters of individual labor supply.The standard model with unconstrained hours appears as a special case where the number of draws approaches infinity. We estimate the mean absolute difference between desired and actual work hours to be about ten hours perweek. The results strongly support the notion that hours choices are constrained, and suggest that models which ignore restrictions on hours worked may yield biased estimates of the wage elasticity of desired hours. Further, we suggest that analysis of policies such as income transfers and the flat rate tax which do not consider their effects on the distribution of hours offered may be very misleading. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Macroeconomics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w1638 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/558881 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | William T. Dickens,Shelly J. Lundberg. Hours Restrictions and Labor Supply. 1985. |
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