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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Preprint 2012 EC | HUMAN CAPITAL, SSHRC, EC | LASUTEC| HUMAN CAPITAL ,SSHRC ,EC| LASUTAuthors: Luisa Fuster; Gueorgui Kambourov; Andres Erosa;Luisa Fuster; Gueorgui Kambourov; Andres Erosa;There is a negative mean-dispersion relationship between the log of mean annual hours in an occupation and the standard deviation of log annual hours in that occupation. We document this pattern using data from the 1976-2011 Current Population Survey (CPS) and various Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) waves from 1984 till 2004. This pattern holds over time and across age, education, and gender groups and is observed both at the intensive (weekly hours) and extensive (number of weeks) margins. Occupations have hardly changed their position in the mean-dispersion space over the 1976-2011 time period. However, the fraction of those working in the high mean-low dispersion occupations has increased substantially, mostly due to a change in the fraction of women across these sectors. We provide a simple model which illustrates the relative importance of three mechanisms in understanding these facts and individuals' decisions to sort into different sectors (occupations) in the economy - differences in occupation-specific fixed costs of work, in the individuals' sectoral comparative advantage, and in the utility of leisure.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Preprint 2011 SSHRC, EC | LASUT, EC | HUMAN CAPITALSSHRC ,EC| LASUT ,EC| HUMAN CAPITALAuthors: Andres Erosa; Luisa Fuster; Gueorgui Kambourov;Andres Erosa; Luisa Fuster; Gueorgui Kambourov;There are substantial cross-country differences in labor supply late in the life cycle (age 50+). A theory of labor supply and retirement decisions is developed to quantitatively assess the role of social security, disability insurance, and taxation for understanding differences in labor supply late in the life cycle across European countries and the United States. The findings support the view that government policies can go a long way towards accounting for the low labor supply late in the life cycle in the European countries relatively to the United States, with social security rules accounting for the bulk of these effects.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint 2016 SpainOxford University Press (OUP) SSHRC, EC | LASUT, EC | MACROINEQUALITYSSHRC ,EC| LASUT ,EC| MACROINEQUALITYAuthors: Andres Erosa; Luisa Fuster; Gueorgui Kambourov;Andres Erosa; Luisa Fuster; Gueorgui Kambourov;handle: 10016/25250
We build a heterogeneous agents life cycle model that captures a large number of salient features of individual male labour supply over the life cycle, by education, both along the intensive and extensive margins. The model provides an aggregation theory of individual labour supply, firmly grounded on individual-level micro-evidence, and is used to study the aggregate labour supply responses to changes in the economic environment. We find that the aggregate labour supply elasticity to a transitory wage shock is 1.75, with the extensive margin accounting for 62% of the response. Furthermore, we find that the aggregate labour supply elasticity to a permanent-compensated wage change is 0.44. Andrés Erosa and Luisa Fuster acknowledge financial support from the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain (grants ECO2012-31653 and MDM 2014-0431) and Comunidad de Madrid, MadEco-CM (S2015/HUM-3444). Luisa Fuster also acknowledges financial support from the European Community under the Marie Curie International Reintegration grant PIRG03-GA-2008-231099. Gueorgui Kambourov has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grants #410-2011-1051 and #435-2014-0815 and from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement n. 324085.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Preprint , Article 2005Elsevier BV EC | HUMAN CAPITAL, SSHRC, EC | LASUTEC| HUMAN CAPITAL ,SSHRC ,EC| LASUTAuthors: Andrés Erosa; Luisa Fuster; Diego Restuccia;Andrés Erosa; Luisa Fuster; Diego Restuccia;An important feature of the U.S. labor market is that, even after controlling for measurable differences in education and experience, the average wage of women with children is 89 percent of the average wage of women without children. This ``family gap\\\" in wages accounts for almost half the gender gap in wages. Proponents of mandatory-leave policies argue that career interruptions associated with fertility have long-lasting effects on female employment and are costly in terms of human-capital losses for females. Despite the fact that mandatory leaves are widely applied in developed countries, their effects on the economy are not well understood. We develop and calibrate a general-equilibrium model of fertility and labor-market decisions to study the quantitative impact of such policies. We build on the Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) labor-market framework by introducing male and female workers, general and specific human-capital accumulation on the job, and temporary separations between the worker and a job. We find that: ($i$) the loss of specific human capital accounts for a small fraction of the wage gaps and ($ii$) mandatory-leave policies have substantial aggregate and redistributive effects on fertility, employment, and welfare. Interestingly, we find that the general-equilibrium effect of mandatory-leave policies is a reduction in the amount of time females spend at home with children.
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This paper measures how much of the gender wage gap over the life cycle is due to the fact that working hours are lower for women than for men. We build a quantitative theory of fertility, labor supply, and human capital accumulation decisions to measure gender differences in human capital investments over the life cycle. We assume that there are no gender differences in the human capital technology and calibrate this technology using wage-age profiles of men. The calibration of females assumes that children involves a forced reduction in hours of work that falls on females rather than on males and that there is an exogenous gender gap in hours of work. We find that our theory accounts for all of the increase in the gender wage gap over the life cycle in the NLSY79 data. The impact of children on the labor supply of females accounts for 56% and 45% of the increase in the gender wage gap over the life cycle among non-college and college females, while the rest is due to the exogenous gender differences in hours of work. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Erosa and Luisa Fuster gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Ministerio Economía y Competitividad of Spain, Grants ECO2012-31653 and MDM 2014-0431, and from MadEco-CM, Grant S2015/HUM-3444.
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Preprint 2012 EC | HUMAN CAPITAL, SSHRC, EC | LASUTEC| HUMAN CAPITAL ,SSHRC ,EC| LASUTAuthors: Luisa Fuster; Gueorgui Kambourov; Andres Erosa;Luisa Fuster; Gueorgui Kambourov; Andres Erosa;There is a negative mean-dispersion relationship between the log of mean annual hours in an occupation and the standard deviation of log annual hours in that occupation. We document this pattern using data from the 1976-2011 Current Population Survey (CPS) and various Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) waves from 1984 till 2004. This pattern holds over time and across age, education, and gender groups and is observed both at the intensive (weekly hours) and extensive (number of weeks) margins. Occupations have hardly changed their position in the mean-dispersion space over the 1976-2011 time period. However, the fraction of those working in the high mean-low dispersion occupations has increased substantially, mostly due to a change in the fraction of women across these sectors. We provide a simple model which illustrates the relative importance of three mechanisms in understanding these facts and individuals' decisions to sort into different sectors (occupations) in the economy - differences in occupation-specific fixed costs of work, in the individuals' sectoral comparative advantage, and in the utility of leisure.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Preprint 2013 SSHRC, EC | HUMAN CAPITAL, EC | LASUTSSHRC ,EC| HUMAN CAPITAL ,EC| LASUTAuthors: luisa fuster; Richard Rogerson; Gueorgui Kambourov; Andres Erosa;luisa fuster; Richard Rogerson; Gueorgui Kambourov; Andres Erosa;There is a negative mean-dispersion relationship between the log of mean annual hours in an occupation and the standard deviation of log annual hours in that occupation. We document this pattern using data from the 1976-2011 Current Population Survey (CPS) and various Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) waves from 1984 till 2004. This pattern holds over time and across age, education, and gender groups and is observed both at the intensive (weekly hours) and extensive (number of weeks) margins. Occupations have hardly changed their position in the mean-dispersion space over the 1976-2011 time period. However, the fraction of those working in the high mean-low dispersion occupations has increased substantially, mostly due to a change in the fraction of women across these sectors. We provide a simple model which illustrates the relative importance of four mechanisms in understanding these facts and individuals' decisions to sort into different sectors (occupations) in the economy. The first two are demand-side factors and refer to occupations -- differences (i) in occupation-specific fixed costs of work, and (ii) in the human capital accumulation profiles. The other two are supply-side factors and are related to individuals -- differences (iii) in the utility of leisure (or home production productivity), and (iv) in ability.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Preprint 2011 SSHRC, EC | LASUT, EC | HUMAN CAPITALSSHRC ,EC| LASUT ,EC| HUMAN CAPITALAuthors: Andres Erosa; Luisa Fuster; Gueorgui Kambourov;Andres Erosa; Luisa Fuster; Gueorgui Kambourov;There are substantial cross-country differences in labor supply late in the life cycle (age 50+). A theory of labor supply and retirement decisions is developed to quantitatively assess the role of social security, disability insurance, and taxation for understanding differences in labor supply late in the life cycle across European countries and the United States. The findings support the view that government policies can go a long way towards accounting for the low labor supply late in the life cycle in the European countries relatively to the United States, with social security rules accounting for the bulk of these effects.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint 2016 SpainOxford University Press (OUP) SSHRC, EC | LASUT, EC | MACROINEQUALITYSSHRC ,EC| LASUT ,EC| MACROINEQUALITYAuthors: Andres Erosa; Luisa Fuster; Gueorgui Kambourov;Andres Erosa; Luisa Fuster; Gueorgui Kambourov;handle: 10016/25250
We build a heterogeneous agents life cycle model that captures a large number of salient features of individual male labour supply over the life cycle, by education, both along the intensive and extensive margins. The model provides an aggregation theory of individual labour supply, firmly grounded on individual-level micro-evidence, and is used to study the aggregate labour supply responses to changes in the economic environment. We find that the aggregate labour supply elasticity to a transitory wage shock is 1.75, with the extensive margin accounting for 62% of the response. Furthermore, we find that the aggregate labour supply elasticity to a permanent-compensated wage change is 0.44. Andrés Erosa and Luisa Fuster acknowledge financial support from the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain (grants ECO2012-31653 and MDM 2014-0431) and Comunidad de Madrid, MadEco-CM (S2015/HUM-3444). Luisa Fuster also acknowledges financial support from the European Community under the Marie Curie International Reintegration grant PIRG03-GA-2008-231099. Gueorgui Kambourov has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grants #410-2011-1051 and #435-2014-0815 and from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement n. 324085.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Preprint , Article 2005Elsevier BV EC | HUMAN CAPITAL, SSHRC, EC | LASUTEC| HUMAN CAPITAL ,SSHRC ,EC| LASUTAuthors: Andrés Erosa; Luisa Fuster; Diego Restuccia;Andrés Erosa; Luisa Fuster; Diego Restuccia;An important feature of the U.S. labor market is that, even after controlling for measurable differences in education and experience, the average wage of women with children is 89 percent of the average wage of women without children. This ``family gap\\\" in wages accounts for almost half the gender gap in wages. Proponents of mandatory-leave policies argue that career interruptions associated with fertility have long-lasting effects on female employment and are costly in terms of human-capital losses for females. Despite the fact that mandatory leaves are widely applied in developed countries, their effects on the economy are not well understood. We develop and calibrate a general-equilibrium model of fertility and labor-market decisions to study the quantitative impact of such policies. We build on the Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) labor-market framework by introducing male and female workers, general and specific human-capital accumulation on the job, and temporary separations between the worker and a job. We find that: ($i$) the loss of specific human capital accounts for a small fraction of the wage gaps and ($ii$) mandatory-leave policies have substantial aggregate and redistributive effects on fertility, employment, and welfare. Interestingly, we find that the general-equilibrium effect of mandatory-leave policies is a reduction in the amount of time females spend at home with children.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Preprint , Article 2005 SpainElsevier BV EC | LASUT, SSHRCEC| LASUT ,SSHRCAuthors: Erosa, Andrés; Fuster, Luisa; Restuccia, Diego;Erosa, Andrés; Fuster, Luisa; Restuccia, Diego;handle: 10016/25166
This paper measures how much of the gender wage gap over the life cycle is due to the fact that working hours are lower for women than for men. We build a quantitative theory of fertility, labor supply, and human capital accumulation decisions to measure gender differences in human capital investments over the life cycle. We assume that there are no gender differences in the human capital technology and calibrate this technology using wage-age profiles of men. The calibration of females assumes that children involves a forced reduction in hours of work that falls on females rather than on males and that there is an exogenous gender gap in hours of work. We find that our theory accounts for all of the increase in the gender wage gap over the life cycle in the NLSY79 data. The impact of children on the labor supply of females accounts for 56% and 45% of the increase in the gender wage gap over the life cycle among non-college and college females, while the rest is due to the exogenous gender differences in hours of work. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Erosa and Luisa Fuster gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Ministerio Economía y Competitividad of Spain, Grants ECO2012-31653 and MDM 2014-0431, and from MadEco-CM, Grant S2015/HUM-3444.
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