Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62991 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Memorandum No. 2003,11
Publisher: 
University of Oslo, Department of Economics, Oslo
Abstract: 
In this paper we discuss a general framework for analyzing labor supply behavior in the presence of complicated budget- and quantity constraints of which some are unobserved. The point of departure is that an individual’s labor supply decision can be considered as a choice from a set of discrete alternatives (jobs). These jobs are characterized by attributes such as hours of work, sector specific wages and other sector specific aspects of the jobs. We focus in particular on theoretical justification of functional form assumptions and properties of the random components of the model. The paper includes an empirical application based on Norwegian data, in which the labor supply of married women is estimated.
Subjects: 
Labor supply
non-convex budget sets
non-pecuniary job-attributes
sector-specific wages
JEL: 
C51
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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