A Dynamic Tobit Model of Female Labor Supply

dc.contributor.author	Islam, Nizamul
dc.date.accessioned	2007-08-29T10:20:45Z
dc.date.available	2007-08-29T10:20:45Z
dc.date.issued	2007-08-29T10:20:45Z
dc.identifier.issn	1403-2465
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2077/4729
dc.description.abstract	A dynamic Tobit model is applied to longitudinal data to estimate the hours of work of married women in Sweden during 1992-2001. Hours of work are found to be negatively related to fertility. Other characteristics of married women are also found to have an effect on labor supply. Inter- temporal labor supply decisions seemed to be characterized by a substantial amount of unobserved heterogeneity, first order state dependence and serially correlated error components. The findings suggest that the first order state dependence and unobserved heterogeneity are very sensitive to the initial condition.	eng
dc.language.iso	eng	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working Papers in Economics	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	259	eng
dc.subject	Female labor supply	eng
dc.subject	State dependence	eng
dc.subject	Heterogeneity	eng
dc.subject	Dynamic Tobit.	eng
dc.subject	JEL: J22; C23; C25	eng
dc.title	A Dynamic Tobit Model of Female Labor Supply	eng
dc.type	Text	eng
dc.type.svep	report	eng
dc.gup.origin	Göteborg University, School of Buisness, Economics and Law	eng
dc.gup.department	Department of Economics	eng