Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Victoria Prowse
Author-Email: victoria.prowse@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Author-Workplace-Name: Nuffield College, Oxford University, UK
Title: Estimating Time Demand Elasticities Under Rationing
Abstract: A multivariate extension of the standard labour supply model in presented. 
In the multivariate time allocation model leisure is disaggregated into a
number of non market activities including sports, volunteer work and home
production.  Using data from the 2000 UK Time Use Survey, a linear expenditure 
system is estimated, allowing corner solutions in the time allocated to market
work and non market activities.  The effects of children, age, gender and 
education are largely as expected.  The unusually high wage elasticities are 
attributed to a combination of the functional form of the linear expenditure 
and the treatment of the zero observations.
Classification-JEL: C15, C34, J22
Keywords: Time use, Labour supply, Corner solutions, Simulation inference
Length: 35 pages
Creation-Date:2004-10-14
Number:2004-W22
File-URL: http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/economics/papers/2004/w22/vp_14_10_04.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:nuf:econwp:0422