Does Labor Supply Explain Fluctuations in Average Hours Worked?

Joshua D Angrist ()

No 3312, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Economists have long debated over what labor supply has to do with fluctuations in hours worked. This paper uses a time series of cross-sections from the 1964-88 Current Population Surveys to study whether microeconomic intertemporal substitution models can explain time series fluctuations in annual averages. Conditional on a parametric trend, labor supply equations fit the 1975-87 data remarkably well. But estimates for 1963-74 are not robust, and estimated labor supply elasticities are much lower in the earlier period.

Date: 1990-03
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