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The Effects of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates / Shulamit Kahn, Kevin Lang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kahn, Shulamit.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w2647.
- NBER working paper series no. w2647
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1988.
- Summary:
- Almost all labor supply models are estimated under the assumption that workers are free to choose their hours. However, theory, casual empiricism and survey data suggest that many workers are not free to vary the hours within a job. Consequently, labor supply estimates based on actual hours of work may be biased. Using Canadian data on desired hours of work, we find that using actual hours causes labor supply estimates to be biased upwards but the bias is small.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 1988.
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