The Labor Supply Of Self-Employed Workers: The Choice Of Working Hours In Worker Co-Ops

John Pencavel

No 13-036, Discussion Papers from Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: If workers in cooperatives are like workers in conventional workplaces, they care about the length of their working hours. In this paper, their choice of hours is characterized as a conventional labor supply decision and a familiar hours-wage relationship is derived. This is estimated using mill-year observations on the plywood co-ops in the Pacific Northwest. The results are compared with those from the labor supply behavior of self-employed workers and with those in capitalist plywood mills.

Keywords: labor supply; hours; worker co-ops (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-ltv
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www-siepr.stanford.edu/repec/sip/13-036.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: The labor supply of self-employed workers: The choice of working hours in worker co-ops (2015)
Working Paper: The Labor Supply of Self-Employed Workers: The Choice of Working Hours in Worker Co-ops (2014)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sip:dpaper:13-036

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Discussion Papers from Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Anne Shor ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).