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
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Journal Article: The labor supply of self-employed workers: The choice of working hours in worker co-ops (2015)
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