Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20270 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1035
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Depending on data source, estimates of hours of work give widely different results both as to level and change. In this paper three alternative measures of hours worked are used to estimate a simple labour supply function to investigate if estimated wage rate and income effects are data dependent as well. The measures used include those from time-use surveys and those from regular surveys. The latter are based on the responses to a question about normal weekly hours of market work. The results suggest that estimates of the wage rate effects become much smaller when measures of normal hours are used compared to data collected for a well-defined time period close to the date of interview, such as time-use data. The income effects appear less sensitive to the choice of data.
Subjects: 
hours of work
labour supply
time-use
measurement errors
JEL: 
J22
C39
C81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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