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-hours care, and may even prove harmful if incentives are not well-targeted. …
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Few papers examine the pecuniary and non-pecuniary determinants of doctors' labour supply despite substantial predicted shortages in many OECD countries. We contribute to the literature by applying both a structural discrete choice and a reduced-form approach. Using detailed survey data for...
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In order to learn more about the wage elasticity of the teacher supply in Switzerland, this paper estimates wages for …-1999. The data allows us to estimate the wage elasticity for entry wages of upper secondary school teachers. In the cases …
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countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle variation in time use …
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We hypothesize that an individual?s time use choices are contingent on the time use choices of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household. We develop a model of time use, and demonstrate that its...
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weakly to changes in wages. We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing qualification holders' labour supply in different … wage elasticities might be higher than previous research has found. This is mainly due to the effect of wages on the … respect to income are higher for nurses with children, while the positive elasticities with respect to wages are higher for …
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The collective model of labour supply opened the household black box and allowed for individual treatment of partners in couples. However, the literature on labour supply has so far largely ignored a broader issue with special relevance to transition and developing countries - the distinction of...
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monopsony or upward sloping labour supply curves for average firm wages. Panel estimates provide strong evidence of a much … compensating differentials with lagged wages, and for profitability (rent sharing). Employment expansion also has a positive effect … on wages, providing further evidence for upward sloping labour supply (as distinct from the effect of shocks in a …
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how the magnitude of the estimated elasticities varies depending on whether net or gross wages and income are used in the … changes in their own or spouses' wages. …
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This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture of the time paths of labour supplies, saving and full consumption for two-adult households over the life cycle. These data are used to test the life cycle model presented in the paper, at the core of which...
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