Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58717 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6051
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the extensive and intensive margins. This decomposition is also shown to be coherent with the analysis of labour supply elasticities at these margins. We use detailed representative micro-datasets to examine the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins in explaining the overall changes in total hours worked.
Subjects: 
labor supply
employment
hours of work
JEL: 
J21
J22
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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