Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67163 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6991
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We estimate Frisch elasticity in a labor market with high job turnover. In a context where only around 18% of the employed labor force has formal and stable jobs, we perform a fixed effects estimation as proposed by MaCurdy (1981) with a Heckman correction for selection into unemployment. We identify the positive slope of the labor supply using firms' size as an instrumental variable for wages. We use Peruvian data from the Permanent Employment Survey of Lima. We find that neglecting wage endogeneity implies a downward sloping labor supply, while the job turnover bias, not accounting for job turnover, overestimates Frisch elasticity. We estimate Frisch elasticity at around 0.38, which indicates fairly adjustable wages and little reaction of hours of work to wage variations. Moreover, we find that the Frisch elasticity is decreasing in income and tended to increase in the last decade.
Subjects: 
labor supply
Frisch elasticity
hours of work
job turnover
JEL: 
E24
J22
J24
J41
J60
J63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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