Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities

Monika Merz
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Monika Merz: University of Vienna

No 51, 2014 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: This paper develops a statistical aggregation procedure for the Frisch elasticity of labor supply. It allows for worker heterogeneity in observables and unobservables and is applicable to an individual labor supply function with non-employment as a possible outcome. Subjecting all offered or paid wages to an unanticipated temporary change we analytically derive the aggregate Frisch wage-elasticity of labor supply and its main components. We quantify each component using individual-specific data from the German SOEP for males at working-age. This database provides indirect evidence on unemployed workers’ reservation wages. We use this variable in conjunction with a two-step conditional density estimator to retrieve the extensive adjustment of hours worked and wages paid. The intensive hours’ adjustment follows from estimating a conventional panel data model of individual hours worked. Our estimated aggregate Frisch elasticity varies between .63 and .70. These results are sensitive to the assumed nature of wage change.

Date: 2014
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