We empirically analyze the labor supply choices of married men and women according to their body size (BMI), using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on anthropometric characteristics of both spouses, and unmarried men and women as comparison group. Heavier husbands are found to work significantly more hours and earn more labor income, controlling for both spouses’ demographic and soc...

A Collective Household Model of Time Allocation: A Comparison of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean an...

and particularly to Stanley Masters for many helpful criticisms and suggestions. At least one-half of the good ideas in the text should probably be attributed to Masters. I have discussed the study so often and in such great detail with him that it is impossible at this point for me to distinguish clearly which particular suggestions originated with him. Finally, I am indebted to Gordon Wilson ...

In this Article, I argue that tax and tran~fer policies are more efficient than immigration restrictions as instruments for raising the aftertax incomes of the least skilled native workers. Policies to protect these native workers frol1'l immigrant competition in the labor nwrket do no better at promoting distributive justice and are likely to impose a greater economic burden on natives in the ...

I develop a two-period stochastic dynamic programming model to explain the interaction between fertilizer use and off-farm labor supply. I use a well-known sample of farmers in the semi-arid tropics of India to test the model. I find that fertilizer use responds strongly to wages in the village labor market and that irrigation raises fertilizer use, while larger farmers use less fertilizer than...

We examine the importance of possible non-random attrition to an econometric model of life cycle labor supply including joint nonlinear taxation of wage and interest incomes and latent heterogeneity. We use a Wald test comparing attriters to nonattriters and variable addition testing based on formal models of attrition. Results from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics are that non-random panel a...

This paper analyzes the determinants of the journey-to-work commute patterns for male teenage workers within a single local labor market: the Oakland Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area. Controlling for the intervening opportunities and the intervening labor supply between a given origin and destination reduces the estimated negative effect of distance on the inter-zonal flow of labor by near...

background: female labor supply has been changed dramatically in the recent yr. in this study, we examined the effects of development on the relationship between fertility and female labor supply. methods: we used data of population and housing census of iran and estimated three separate models. to do this we employed logistic regressions (blr). results: the estimation results of our study show...

Physicians are key personnel in a sector which is important due to its size as well as the quality of service it provides. We estimate the labor supply of physicians employed at hospitals in Norway, using personnel register data merged with other public records. A dynamic labor supply equation is estimated using a sample of 1303 male physicians observed over the period 1993-1997. The methods of...

In this paper we first document various facts about the labor supply decisions of male workers in the US over their life cycle. We then build a neoclassical model of labor markets with non-linear wages and heterogeneous agents that accounts for labor supply choices at the extensive margin. The key feature of our theory for delivering periods of non-participation is the non-linear mapping betwee...