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Est‐ce que l'offre de travail des épouses réagit en réponse aux variations de salaires des époux? Résultats pour le Canada à partir de micro données et de données groupées .
Author(s) -
Morissette René,
Hou Feng
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2008.00500.x
Subject(s) - economics , ordinary least squares , wage , estimator , econometrics , labour economics , wage dispersion , yield (engineering) , labour supply , demographic economics , efficiency wage , statistics , mathematics , materials science , metallurgy
. Using micro data and grouped data, we assess the extent to which Canadian wives adjusted their labour supply in response to changes in husbands' wages during the period 1980‐2000. Grouped data parameters based on weighted least squares and the unbiased‐error‐in‐variables estimator developed by Devereux (2004, 2007a,b) yield cross‐wage elasticities that are substantially higher (in absolute value) than those derived from OLS regressions run on micro data. Both grouping estimators indicate that the labour supply of Canadian wives responded strongly to changes in husbands' wages during the 1980s. For the 1990s, our estimates of wives' cross‐wage elasticity display greater dispersion.