This chapter surveys existing approaches to modeling labor supply and identifies important
gaps in the literature that could be addressed in future research. The discussion begins with …

There is a huge variation in the size of labor supply elasticities in the literature, which
hampers policy analysis. While recent studies show that preference heterogeneity across …

We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17
European countries and the United States using a harmonized empirical approach. We find …

We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation—including
education, and savings for women in the United Kingdom, exploiting tax and benefit reforms …

The 1980's tax reforms and the changing dispersion of wages offer one of the best
opportunities yet to estimate labor supply effects. Nevertheless, changing sample …

This chapter provides an overview of the voluminous literature relating tax and the supply of
effort that has developed since the Meade Report (Meade, 1978) on the UK tax system thirty …

We develop an empirical model of labour supply that is consistent with on-the-job search
and which is identified and estimated by combining two data sets: the UK Family …

This paper extends the theory and measurement of the marginal cost of public funds (MCF)
to account for labor force participation responses. Our work is motivated by the emerging …

Welfare policy toward low-income families in the United Kingdom experienced a significant
shift toward “in-work” benefits in the late 1980s and 1990s. Although a work requirement for …

This paper provides a technical survey of recent developments in behavioural
microsimulation. We discuss the criteria by which models of labour supply may be chosen …