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Title: Extensive and intensive margins of labour supply: working hours in the US, UK and France

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Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries:United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the extensive and intensive margins. This decompositionis also shown to be coherent with the analysis of labour supply elasticities at these margins. We use detailed representative micro-datasets to examine the relativeimportance of the extensive and intensive margins in explaining the overall changes in total hours worked. We also present some initial estimates of the broad distribution of implied elasticities and their implication for the overall aggregate hours elasticity.

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Authors: Bozio, Antoine; Laroque, Guy; Blundell, Richard

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Publication Number: 01/11

Institution: Institute for Fiscal Studies

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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