Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192836 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 854
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
The standard static labor supply model ignores that it takes time for individuals to adjust to a taxbenefit reform. A labor supply decision model is developed that allows for lagged responses in terms of state dependence, stemming from preferences, labor market constraints and adjustment costs. The parameters of the model are estimated using panel data on working hours for Norwegian females. We find evidence of all three sources of state dependence, with adjustment costs as the most dominant component. When using the model to simulate the path of adjustment to a general tax cut, we find that state dependence brings down responses to only one third of the estimated full effect in the first year. The females reach the proximity of the full effect after about seven years.
Subjects: 
labor supply
path of adjustment
state dependence
adjustment costs
discrete choice model
tax-benefit microsimulation
JEL: 
C35
C51
H24
H31
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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