How many pears would a pear packer pack if a pear packer could pack pears at quasi-exogenously varying piece rates?

Tom Chang and Tal Gross

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, vol. 99, issue C, 1-17

Abstract: We examine labor supply using a unique dataset collected from a large pear-packing factory. Pear packers face both expected and unexpected shocks to their wages, and we use this to evaluate different models of inter-temporal labor supply. We find strong evidence for reference-dependent preferences, but only mixed support for models of rational-expectations-based targets.

Keywords: Rational-expectations based targets; Income targeting; Intertemporal labor supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2013.11.001

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