Modelling and Empirical Evaluation of Labour Supply Behaviour

1. Introduction.- 2 A simple neoclassical model of labour supply.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 The model specification for one-adult households.- 2.3 The model specification for two-adult households.- 2.4 Data.- 2.5 Estimation results.- 2.6 Concluding remarks.- 2A Wage equations.- 2B A reduced form estimation of single male labour supply.- 2C Derivation of the standard errors of elasticities.- 3 The social security and welfare system and institutional constraints.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 A nonconvex budget set.- 3.3 The use of preferred hours.- 3.4 Estimation results.- 3.5 Concluding remarks.- 3A Likelihood contributions.- 4 Preference interdependence and habit formation.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 A labour supply model with preference formation.- 4.3 Estimation results.- 4.4 A factor analytic model of reference groups.- 4.5 The labour supply model reestimated.- 4.6 Conclusion.- 4A Social group means.- 4B Identification.- 4C Stability.- 4D Correlation matrices of indicators.- 5 Job characteristics.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 The model.- 5.3 Empirical results.- 5.4 Conclusion.- 5A Derivation of the reduced form.- 5B The likelihood function.- 6 Hours restrictions.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 The model.- 6.3 Estimation results.- 6.4 Conclusion.- 6A The expression for ejk and the likelihood function.- 7 Comparison of several models.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Two-sample tests.- 7.3 ?2 diagnostic tests.- 7.4 Concluding remarks.- 7A Partitioning of the endogenous variable.- 8 Conclusion.- References.