This paper investigates how high-speed home Internet has impacted married women’s labor force participation. I estimate the net effect of individual Internet usage on labor supply using an instrumental variables strategy which exploits cross-state variation in supply-side constraints to residential broadband Internet access. Results indicate that married women who use the Internet are more like...

We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We show that there are increasing returns to education at the labor market participation margin, and that these depend directly on the elasticity of labor supply with respect to wages. Thu...

Labor Supply, Home Production and Welfare Comparisons We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic production is mistakenly ignored, the “collective” indirect utilities that are retrieved from observed behavior will be unbiased if and only if the profit function is additive. Otherwise, in the non-additive case, the directi...

Firm Market Power and the Earnings Distribution Using linked employer-employee data, I compute firm-level measures of the labor supply elasticity facing each private non-farm firm in the US. I provide the first direct evidence of the positive relationship between a firm's labor supply elasticity and the earnings of its workers. I also contrast the dynamic model method employed by this paper wit...

Employing LL iobbDouglas specification for the production function and a modified iinear expenditure system, the paper presents an econometric model of household production, consumption and labor supply behaviour for a semi-commercial farm with a competitive labor market. The model, estimated from p.l,-iary, cross-sectional, Malaysian data, is used :o analyse the impact of migration, output pri...

Despite numerous empirical studies, there is surprisingly little agreement about whether the Social Security earnings test affects male labor supply. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the labor supply effects of the earnings test using longitudinal administrative earnings data and more commonly used survey data. We find that the response to the earnings test in survey data i...

Over 11 million undocumented persons reside in the United States. This paper examines the labor supply of this population. Using newly developed methods that impute undocumented status for persons in the Current Population Surveys, the study documents a number of findings. The labor force participation rate of undocumented men is larger than that of natives or legal immigrants; this gap widened...

I document differences in labor supply between a set of Latin American countries and the U.S. in the period 1990-2005. In the U.S. the female labor force participation was 69% by 1990, while in Brazil and Mexico was 39% and 37%, respectively. Females began to participate more in the labor market of these countries when more households acquired access to basic infrastructure and when distortive ...

The Australian age pension is noncontributory, funded through general tax revenues and means tested against pensioners’ private resources, including labor earnings. This paper constructs an overlapping generations (OLG) model of the Australian economy to examine the economy-wide implications of several counterfactual experiments in the means testing of the age pension. These experiments include...

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 ...