Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/113115 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2015: Ökonomische Entwicklung - Theorie und Politik - Session: Labor and credit No. E04-V2
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Abstract: 
Estimates of Frisch labor-supply elasticities are larger for women than for men. We show that standard labor-supply regressions tend to overestimate this gender difference. In couples with joint borrowing constraints, wage-rate fluctuations of the secondary earner are less important for the couples willingness to borrow. This results in smaller estimation biases for secondary earners which are mostly women, empirically. Quantitatively, our results suggest that the gender difference in true Frisch elasticities is about a fifth smaller than reported reviously.
JEL: 
E24
J16
J22
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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