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This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the extensive and intensive margins. This decomposition is also shown to be coherent with the analysis of labour supply elasticities at these margins. We use detailed representative micro-datasets to examine the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins in explaining the overall changes in total hours worked. We also present some initial estimates of the broad distribution of implied elasticities and their implication for the overall aggregate hours elasticity.
Authors
CPP Co-Director
Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.
Guy Laroque
Research Fellow Paris School of Economics
Antoine is a Research Fellow, an Associate Professor at the EHESS, and Director of the Institut des Politiques Publiques (IPP) in Paris.
Working Paper details
- DOI
- 10.1920/wp.ifs.2011.1101
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
R, Blundell and A, Bozio and G, Laroque. (2011). Extensive and intensive margins of labour supply: working hours in the US, UK and France. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/extensive-and-intensive-margins-labour-supply-working-hours-us-uk-and-france (accessed: 10 May 2024).
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