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American Economic Review Vol. 101 No. 3 2011

Labor Supply and the Extensive Margin

Richard Blundell1; Antoine Bozio2; Guy Laroque3

1 University College London (UCL) and Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), 7 Ridgmount Street WC1E 7AE London. · 2 UCL and IFS · 3 UCL, IFS, and CREST.

Abstract

In this paper we propose a systematic way of examining the importance of the extensive and the intensive margins of labor supply in order to explain the overall movements in total hours of work over time. We show how informative bounds can be developed on each of these margins. We apply this analysis to the evolution of hours of work in the US, the UK, and France and show that both the extensive and intensive margins matter in explaining changes in total hours.

DOI
10.1257/aer.101.3.482
Volume
101
Issue
3
Pages
482-486
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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