Adjustment costs, firm responses, and labor supply elasticities
Subtitle: evidence from danish tax records
By: Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Tore Olsen, Luigi Pistaferri.
Contributors: Chetty, Raj.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15617; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15617.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  We show that adjustment costs for workers interact with hours constraints set by firms to determine the effect of taxes on labor supply.  We present evidence supporting three predictions of an equilibrium model in which firms post wage-hours packages and workers pay search costs to find jobs.  First, observed labor supply elasticities increase with the size of the tax variation from which they are identified.  Second, tax changes that apply to a larger group of workers generate larger responses.  Third, firms tailor job offers to match workers' tax preferences.  Calibrating our model to match the empirical findings, we find that standard microeconometric methods underestimate structural labor supply elasticities by an order of magnitude"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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