Taxation and Labor Supply
Number | 1148 |
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Project manager | Steinar Strøm |
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Client | Norges forskningsråd |
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Participants | John Dagsvik Zhiyang Jia Marilena Locatelli |
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Period | 2010 - 2012 (ended) |
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Project description
In this project there are four different studies:
1) The impact on the labor supply choice among medical doctors of changes in the tax structure.
Almost all medical doctors working in Norwegian hospitals are followed over 10 recent years. A transitions model that allows for correlation in utilities across time is estimated on Norwegian panel data. The estimated model is employed to demonstrate how the choices of medical doctors respond to changes in the tax structure. The choices are whether to work in the private or public sector and hours of work.
2) How taxes affect transition in the Norwegian labor market.
Again a transition model is estimated on recent longitudinal data, covering a representative sample of the Norwegian population. The transitions that are covered are between public and private sectors and between different working loads in terms of annual hours
3) Utility constant labor supply elasticities when the utility function is random.
When the utility function is random, the standard approach to calculate utility constant labor supply elasticities (Slutsky elasticities) cannot be used. Instead one has to derive choice probabilities related to constant utility levels. We clearly find that Slutsky elasticities in random utility models are numerically much lower than in deterministic models.
4) A new method in accounting for selection when labor supply models are estimated.
A full information likelihood procedure is applied to estimate simultaneously labor market participation, hours of work and wage equations.
Publications
Scientific Journal
Other publications