Intertemporal labor supply and involuntary unemployment

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Abstract

We estimate a model of intertemporal male labor supply behavior which explicitly accounts for the effect of income taxation and the transfer system. Moreover, we model the demand-side driven rationing risk that prevents agents from choosing the optimal labor supply state. Our results show that elasticities derived in an unconstrained pure choice model are significantly higher compared to a model with involuntary unemployment. This holds true for short-run and long-run labor supply elasticities.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)661-683
Number of pages23
JournalEmpirical Economics
Volume44
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Intertemporal labor supply behavior
  • Involuntary unemployment
  • Tax and transfer system

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