Job changes and hours changes: Understanding the path of labor supply adjustment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Blundell, Richard; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco
• 署名单位: University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University College London; University of Essex
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/588245
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 421-453
• 关键词: national minimum-wage; income-tax credit; hours constraints; lone mothers; work; MODEL; unemployment; PROGRAMS; families; mobility

摘要

We use British panel data to investigate single women's labor supply changes in response to three reforms that affected individuals' work incentives. We use these reforms to identify changes in labor supply. There is evidence of small hours of work effects for two of such reforms. A third reform in 1999 instead led to a significant increase in single mothers' hours of work. The mechanism by which the labor supply adjustments were made occurred largely through job changes rather than hours changes with the same employer. This is little overall effect of the reforms on wages.