TY  - JOUR
AU  - Altonji,Joseph G.
AU  - Paxson,Christina H.
TI  - Labor Supply, Hours Constraints and Job Mobility
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3474
PY  - 1990
Y2  - October 1990
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3474
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3474.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Joseph G. Altonji
Department of Economics
Yale University
Box 208264
New Haven, CT  06520-8264
Tel: 203/432-6285
Fax: 203/432-5591
E-Mail: joseph.altonji@yale.edu

Christina Paxson
424 Robertson Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1022
Tel: 609/258-6474
Fax: 609/258-5974
E-Mail: cpaxson@princeton.edu
AB  - If hours can be freely varied within jobs, the effect on hours of changes in preferences for those who do change jobs should be similar to the effect on hours for those who do not change jobs. Conversely, if employers restrict hours choices, then changes in preferences should affect hours more strongly when the job changes than when it does not change. For a sample of married women we find that changes in many of the labor supply preference variables produce much larger effects on hours when the job changes.
ER  -