Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18389 
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Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 538
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
In this paper I develop an intertemporal discrete choice model of labor supply. The framework incorporates the nonlinearities in the household budget set and accounts for state dependence in labor supply. Based on panel data for Germany (SOEP), I estimate this model using a dynamic conditional logit panel data model with random effects. The estimation results show that state dependence is significantly positive at the extensive margin, yet modest or non existing on the intensive margin. Using the Markov chain property, I derive short and long term labor supply elasticities on both the intensive and extensive margin. The labor supply elasticities diŽer significantly between the short and long run.
Subjects: 
State Dependence
Labor Supply of Married Women
Panel Data
Unobserved Heterogeneity.
JEL: 
J22
C33
C25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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