How Credible Are Shrinking Wage Elasticities of Married Women Labour Supply?

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Main author: Qin, Duo
Other authors: van Huellen, Sophie
Wang, Qing Chao
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id eprints-21666
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institution SOAS, University of London
collection SOAS Research Online
language English
language_search English
description This paper delves into the well-known phenomenon of shrinking wage elasticities for married women in the US over recent decades. The results of a novel model experimental approach via sample data ordering unveil considerable heterogeneity across different wage groups. Yet, surprisingly constant wage elasticity estimates are maintained within certain wage groups over time. In addition to those constant wage elasticity estimates, we find that the composition of working women into different wage groups has changed considerably, resulting in shrinking wage elasticity estimates at the aggregate level. These findings would be impossible to obtain had we not dismantled and discarded the instrumental variable estimation route.
format Journal Article
author Qin, Duo
author_facet Qin, Duo
van Huellen, Sophie
Wang, Qing Chao
authorStr Qin, Duo
author_letter Qin, Duo
author2 van Huellen, Sophie
Wang, Qing Chao
author2Str van Huellen, Sophie
Wang, Qing Chao
title How Credible Are Shrinking Wage Elasticities of Married Women Labour Supply?
publisher MDPI
publishDate 2016
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/21666/

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