A Life-cycle Model of Family Labour Supply

James Heckman

Chapter 17 in Human Resources, Employment and Development, 1983, pp 213-230 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This paper discusses the formulation and estimation of life-cycle models of family labour supply. The focus of this research is on the development of economically rigorous econometrically tractable models that exploit the new wealth of longitudinal data that has become available in the United States.

Keywords: Labour Supply; Wage Rate; Wage Growth; Reservation Wage; Sample Selection Bias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22741-9_17

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