Household Labor Supply in Urban Areas of Bolivia
利用1989年玻利维亚横截面数据，分析发展中国家城市家庭中夫妻双方的劳动力供给行为及正规与非正规部门的选择，发现双方工作时间存在显著的交叉工资弹性，且部门间替代弹性较大。
We analyze labor supply behavior and the choice between formal and informal sector work of the two spouses in families in urban areas of a developing country, using cross-section data from Bolivia drawn in 1989. The model generalizes the neoclassical family labor supply model. Nonmonetary returns of formal sector employment capture the fact that the choice between sectors is not exclusively based on wage differentials. Wage equations, nonmonetary returns equations, and labor supply equations are estimated jointly by smooth simulated maximum likelihood. We find substantial cross - wage elasticities of working hours of both partners, and large substitution elasticities between the two sectors. © 1997 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology