Discrete choice models of family labour supply

Choice Theory;Labour Supply

Comment on 'microeconometric demand systems with binding non-negativity constraints: The dual approach'

Economics;Microeconomics

Household labour supply in urban areas of a developing country

Developing Countries;Household Economics;Labour Supply

Family Labor Supply and Proposed Tax Reforms in the Netherlands

This paper presents a discrete choice static neo-classical labor supply model for married or cohabiting couples in the Netherlands. The model simultaneously explains the participation decision and the desired number of hours worked. Due to its discrete nature, institutional details of the tax system can be fully incorporated. The model is estimated using Dutch cross-section data. The results are used to simulate the first order labor supply effects of proposed reforms of the Dutch income tax system. In particular, it is shown that some of the proposed reforms would have a negative effect on the number of married females who prefer a small part-time job. This pitfall is avoided in the final proposal which has gone to parliament.

The Fixed-Effects Zero-Inflated Poisson Model with an Application to Health Care Utilization

Response variables that are scored as counts and that present a large number of zeros often arise in quantitative health care analysis. We define a zero-in flated Poisson model with fixed-effects in both of its equations to identify respondent and health-related characteristics associated with health care demand. This is a new model that is proposed to model count measures of health care utilization and account for the panel structure of the data. Parameter estimation is achieved by conditional maximum likelihood. An application of the new model is implemented using micro level data from the 2004-2006 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), and compared to existing panel data models for count data. Results show that separately controlling for whether outcomes are zero or positive in one of the two years does make a difference for counts with a larger number of zeros.Count Data;Zero-In ated Poisson Model;Fixed-effects;SHARE

Female labour supply in farm households: Farm and off-farm participation

Female Workers;Farms;Labour Supply