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Russian Households Labor Supply Peculiarities
https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2005-8-124-138
Abstract
The paper presents the results of the "Individual labor supply parameters research" project realized in 2002-2003 in several Russian local labor markets (N = 1413). LS elasticities as well as the shapes of LS curves have been special points of interest of the researches. Besides the canonical C-shaped and S-shaped curves, their mirrored reflections and also L-shaped and J-shaped forms were observed. The "backward bend" concept for poor households and the S-shaped LS curve concept for households with "primary", "secondary" and "tertiary" workers helped to find explanations for the cases. One can observe the same phenomena once found out in India and Africa. The dummies for regions and professions as well as "institutional numbers" are successfully used in order to improve the regression quality.
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Pyastolov S. Russian Households Labor Supply Peculiarities. Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2005;(8):124-138. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2005-8-124-138
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