Qin, Duo, van Huellen, Sophie and Wang, Qing Chao (2016) 'How Credible Are Shrinking Wage Elasticities of Married Women Labour Supply?' Econometrics, 4 (1). pp. 1-31.
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Abstract
This paper delves into the well-known phenomenon of shrinking wage elasticities for married women in the US over recent decades. The results of a novel model experimental approach via sample data ordering unveil considerable heterogeneity across different wage groups. Yet, surprisingly constant wage elasticity estimates are maintained within certain wage groups over time. In addition to those constant wage elasticity estimates, we find that the composition of working women into different wage groups has changed considerably, resulting in shrinking wage elasticity estimates at the aggregate level. These findings would be impossible to obtain had we not dismantled and discarded the instrumental variable estimation route.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > Department of Economics Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > Department of Economics |
| ISSN: | 22251146 |
| Copyright Statement: | © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics4010001 |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jan 2016 16:03 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/21666 |
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