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Virginia Sanchez-Marcos

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Aggregating Elasticities: Intensive and Extensive Margins of Female Labour Supply

Paper Working paper | | Jun 2015

There is a renewed interest in the size of labour supply elasticities and the discrepancy between micro and macro estimates. Recent contributions have stressed the distinction between changes in labour supply at the extensive and the intensive margin. In this paper, we stress the importance of individual heterogeneity and aggregation problems.