Labor Supply in Pandemic Environments: An Aggregative Games Approach

Luciana C. Fiorini and Wilfredo Maldonado ()
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Luciana C. Fiorini: Economics Department, Business School, The University of Western Australia, http://www.web.uwa.edu.au/person/lucianac..fiorini

No 22-14, Economics Discussion / Working Papers from The University of Western Australia, Department of Economics

Abstract: In this paper we analyze the effects that pandemic processes have on labor supply decisions using an aggregative game framework. The individual payoff depends on her labor supply and on the probability of being infected, which in turn, depends on the aggregate labor supply. We show the effects of social and sanitary public policies on the Nash equilibrium and analyze its expectational stability. The results indicate that compensating policies as well as sanitary policies can attenuate the damaging effect of pandemic and stabilize expectations regarding the aggregate decision of labor supply. We also find a set of parameters where two-period cycles for the expectations revision map may arise, implying the oscillating behavior of the probability of contagion in this class of models.

Keywords: Labor supply; pandemic; aggregative games (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 J28 J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17
Date: 2022
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