The labor-supply elasticity and borrowing constraints: Why estimates are biased

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 242-262

  Domeij, David ^a   Flodén, Martin ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b CEPR ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Frisch labor supply elasticity; Liquidity constraint; Monte Carlo experiment; Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645068441     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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