Deriving the labour supply curve from happiness data

Alfred Dockery

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 117, issue 3, 898-900

Abstract: An alternative empirical method to estimating the labour supply function is proposed, based upon subjective wellbeing data. It potentially addresses limitations of the standard neo-classical approach by allowing workers’ observed hours worked to deviate from their utility maximising point.

Keywords: Subjective wellbeing; Labour supply; Working hours (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.07.002

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