Trade, Income and Heterogeneous Labor Supply

Nicolás Depetris-Chauvin and Agustin Velasquez
Additional contact information
Nicolás Depetris-Chauvin: HES-SO
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Agustin Velazquez and Nicolas Depetris Chauvin

No 261, Working Papers from Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE)

Abstract: Workers in developing countries tend to spend more time at work than those in developed countries. This can be explained by preferences with prevalent income effects: as income rises, workers reduce their supply of labor hours to consume more leisure. However, not all workers benefit alike. In this study, we estimate the heterogeneous effects of trade, as a shifter of aggregate income, on workers’ labor supply by age, education, and gender. We find that all workers benefit from more leisure caused by the income boost triggered by trade. However, young and elder workers benefit significantly more than prime-age workers. In addition, following increased trade openness women and less educated workers tend to reduce their labor supply relatively more

Keywords: Hours worked; leisure; labor supply; international trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2023-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-int and nep-lma
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://rednie.eco.unc.edu.ar/files/DT/261.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Trade, Income and Heterogeneous Labor Supply (2023)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aoz:wpaper:261

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Laura Inés D Amato ().