scholarly journals Retirement in a Life Cycle Model of Labor Supply with Home Production

Author(s):  
Richard Rogerson ◽  
Johanna Wallenius
1979 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence J. Kotlikoff ◽  
Lawrence H. Summers

Author(s):  
Jim Been ◽  
Kees Goudswaard

Abstract Using detailed spending and time use data from the Netherlands, this paper analyzes the causal effect of retirement on spending and time use decisions. Both total consumption and disaggregated consumption categories are considered. We do not find empirical evidence for drops in households' total non-durable spending at retirement. Our estimates suggest increases in spending at retirement on goods that are complementary to leisure, but no decreases in spending on goods that are replaceable by home production. The quantitative implication of our empirical results for the Life-Cycle Model is an intertemporal elasticity of substitution for leisure below unity.


2008 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 1517-1552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orazio Attanasio ◽  
Hamish Low ◽  
Virginia Sánchez-Marcos

This paper studies the life-cycle labor supply of three cohorts of American women, born in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. We focus on the increase in labor supply of mothers between the 1940s and 1950s cohorts. We construct a life-cycle model of female participation and savings, and calibrate the model to match the behavior of the middle cohort. We investigate which changes in the determinants of labor supply account for the increases in participation early in the life-cycle observed for the youngest cohort. A combination of a reduction in the cost of children alongside a reduction in the wage-gender gap is needed. (JEL D91, J16, J22, J31)


1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 427-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zvi Bodie ◽  
Robert C. Merton ◽  
William F. Samuelson

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