Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20164
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 927
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In many occupations workers? labor supply choices are constrained by institutional rules regulating labor time and effort provision. This renders explicit tests of the neoclassical theory of labor supply difficult. Here we present evidence from studies examining labor supply responses in ?neoclassical environments? in which workers are free to choose when and how much to work. Despite the favorable environment the results cast doubt on the neoclassical model. They are, however, consistent with a model of reference dependent preferences exhibiting loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity.
Subjects: 
labor supply
intertemporal substitution
loss aversion
reference dependent
JEL: 
B49
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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