Explaining the Declining Labor Supply Responsiveness of Married Women

Zhiyang Jia, Thor O. Thoresen, Trine E. Vattø and Thor Olav Thoresen
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No 11176, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: While the consensus in the literature is that the labor supply of married women is more responsive than that of married men, there are indications that this gap is narrowing. Our estimations of a structural discrete choice labor supply model using repeated cross-sectional data confirms this trend for Norway – the gross wage elasticity for married women decreased from approximately 0.7 in 1997 to under 0.3 in 2019. We further demonstrate how a simulation procedure based on the labor supply model offers insights into the factors driving this decline. We identify four categories of explanations: changes in the sociodemographic composition of the population, changes in preferences and labor market options, wage changes, and tax scheme changes. Our analysis suggests that general wage growth over the period is the primary reason for the decline in responsiveness among married women.

Keywords: female labor supply responsiveness; discrete choice labor supply model; microsimulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C35 C51 H24 H31 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-lma and nep-pbe
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