Backward-Sloping Labor Supply Functions in Dual Economies--The Africa Case

Planning horizon in labour supply of Belarusian small entrepreneurs

“…According to the research literature, these results are similar to the findings in the US, UK, Ivory costs, and Poland, namely in in the study of New York City cab drivers by Camerer et al (1997), Ivory Cost farmers by Berg (1961), self-employed proprietors by Wales (1973) and Polish entrepreneurs by Strielkowski and Wasilewski (2011).…”

Labor Supply of New York City Cabdrivers: One Day at a Time

“…The fact that our analyses yield negative wage elasticities suggests that elasticities of intertemporal substitution around zero (or at least, not strongly positive) may represent a real behavioral regularity. Further support for this assertion comes from analyses of labor supply of farmers (Berg, 1961;Orde-Brown, 1946) and self-employed proprietors (Wales, 1973) who, like cab drivers, set their own hours and often have negative measured wage elasticities. These data suggest that it may be worthwhile to search for negative wage elasticities in other jobs in which workers pay a fixed fee to work, earn variable wages and set their own work hours--such as fishing, some kinds of sales, and panhandling.…”

Duración de los viajes migratorios de mexicanos indocumentados en Estados Unidos bajo la política de reforzamiento de la frontera

“…Según la teoría Targer Income (Berg, 1961;Hill, 1987) a mayor costo de migrar mayores son los incentivos del migrante de permanecer durante más tiempo en el país receptor. Debido a que para lograr alcanzar su meta de ahorro necesitan trabaja más tiempo en el mercado laboral de ese país, ya que tienen que compensar los mayores costos del cruce fronterizo Cornelius, 2001;Lindstrom, 1996).…”