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 …

What happens if an employer cuts wages by one cent? Much of labor economics is built on
the assumption that all the workers will quit immediately. Here, Alan Manning mounts a …

Credit contracts play a direct role in pooling risk between households in northern Nigeria.
Repayments owed by borrowers depend on realizations of random shocks by both …

Using a nationally representative dataset, and information on why farmers did not purchase
fertilizer, the authors estimate a double–hurdle fertilizer adoption model for Ethiopia. Access …

This paper shows the importance of the double‐hurdle approach for modelling individuals'
cigarette consumption, using data from the UK General Household Survey, and argues that …

What new tools and models are enriching labor economics?" Developments in Research
Methods and their Application"(volume 4A) summarizes recent advances in the ways …

The recent decline in India? s rural female labor force participation is generally attributed to
higher rural incomes in a patriarchal society. Together with the growing share of the urban …

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 note shows how the sample likelihood of the full double‐hurdle model with
dependence can be reformulated to allow estimation with standard econometric software …

Are jobless persons who want work but are not actively searching, unemployed or out of the
labour force? Previous research on this issue has focused on North America and used as …