Calendrier du 11 avril 2017
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 11/04/2017 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle 8, bâtiment G, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
MUROGA Kiho (University of Tokyo)
To Work at the Office or Home? Mincer's Hypothesis and the Labor Supply Elasticity of Married Women in Japan
In this study, we empirically tested Mincer's (1962) hypothesis, which holds that the reason for an observed higher labor supply elasticity of married women than for men or single women is their longer household hours, which are highly substitutable with working hours. Using a time-use survey of Japanese working married women and the exogenous income tax shock that formed a natural experiment, we found that married women in Japan increased their working hours and decreased their household hours when taxes decreased, with an estimated compensated wage elasticity of market work of 0.13 to 0.30 and of housework -0.31 to -0.02. The results, particularly the near perfect substitutability of household and market work, confirm Mincer's hypothesis.