DP9718 Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities
Author(s): | Alois Kneip, Monika Merz, Lidia Storjohann |
Publication Date: | November 2013 |
Keyword(s): | Aggregation, Extensive and Intensive Margin of Adjustment, Labor Supply, Reservation Wage Distribution, Time-varying Frisch Elasticities |
JEL(s): | C51, E10, J22 |
Programme Areas: | International Macroeconomics, Labour Economics |
Link to this Page: | cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=9718 |
This paper develops a statistical aggregation procedure for the Frisch elasticity of labor supply. It allows for worker heterogeneity and is applicable to an individual labor supply function with non-employment as a possible outcome. Subjecting all offered or paid wages to an unanticipated temporary change we analytically derive the aggregate elasticity and its main components. We quantify each component using individual-specific data from the German SOEP for males at working-age. We measure the hours' adjustment along the intensive and the extensive margin with the help of observed wages and reservation wages, respectively. The estimated aggegate Frisch elasticity varies over time.