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Review of Economic Studies Vol. 65 No. 1 1998

The Effect of Work Experience on Female Wages and Labour Supply

Sumru Altuğ; Robert A. Miller1

1 Carnegie Mellon University

Abstract

This paper develops and implements a semiparametric estimator for investigating, with panel data, the importance of human capital and time nonseparable preferences to females when aggregate shocks are present. It provides a set of conditions for making statistical inferences about agents' expectations of their correlated future choices, from a short panel. Under the assumption that observed allocations are Pareto optimal, a dynamic model of female labour supply and participation is estimated, in which experience on the job raises future wages, and time spent off the job in the past directly affects current utility (or, indirectly through productivity in the nonmarket sector).

DOI
10.1111/1467-937x.00035
Volume
65
Issue
1
Pages
45-85
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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