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Essays in Labor Economics

dc.contributor.advisorDohmen, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorSimon, Lenard Paul
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-29T16:18:28Z
dc.date.available2024-02-29T16:18:28Z
dc.date.issued29.02.2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/11377
dc.description.abstractAs Western societies age, their working-age populations are declining, resulting in a scarcity of labor. Consequently, these societies face reduced production opportunities while shouldering an increasing burden of elderly care. This leads to governments encountering rising expenditures alongside a decreasing tax base. One potential avenue to mitigate this problem is by increasing the labor supply among the working-age population.
In the canonical model of the labor market, an individual's labor supply is her optimal choice of working hours derived from the trade-off between consumption and leisure, given equilibrium wages and consumption prices. However, in reality, numerous institutional frictions impact labor supply as well, such as misaligned incentives, limited geographic mobility, and inadequate work-family compatibility, among others. Due to these frictions, individuals may choose to work fewer hours than what they would consider optimal when faced with a mere leisure-consumption trade-off. Hence, reducing these frictions could potentially expand the labor supply of the working-age population and, consequently, alleviate the prevailing scarcity of labor in Western societies today. This thesis consists of three independent chapters covering the causes and consequences of such frictions and how they can be eliminated with the help of policies.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsIn Copyright
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dc.subject.ddc330 Wirtschaft
dc.titleEssays in Labor Economics
dc.typeDissertation oder Habilitation
dc.publisher.nameUniversitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
dc.publisher.locationBonn
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.identifier.urnhttps://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5-74581
ulbbn.pubtypeErstveröffentlichung
ulbbnediss.affiliation.nameRheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
ulbbnediss.affiliation.locationBonn
ulbbnediss.thesis.levelDissertation
ulbbnediss.dissID7458
ulbbnediss.date.accepted02.02.2024
ulbbnediss.instituteRechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät / Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften : Institut für angewandte Mikroökonomik
ulbbnediss.fakultaetRechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät
dc.contributor.coRefereeSchiprowski, Amelie


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