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Title: Estimating the wage elasticity of labor supply for married women in Russia 
Author-Name: Polbin Andrei 
Author-Name-First: Andrei 
Author-Name-Last: Polbin 
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy 
Author-Name: Zamnius Alexey 
Author-Name-First: Alexey 
Author-Name-Last: Zamnius 
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Abstract: This paper provides an econometric analysis of the labor supply function of married women in Russia based on data from RLMS HSE and methodology from the work [Heckman, MaCurdy, 1980], in which decisions about entering the labor market and the intensity of work are made within a dynamic optimization tsk. It is shown that the husband's leisure and the number of children in the household have a negative effect on the woman's hours worked. The estimates of the Frisch elasticity of labor supply with respect to wages is close to 0.16. 
Classification-JEL: E24, J22, J24, J41, J63 
Keywords: labor supply, Frisch elasticity, hours of work, job turnover 
Creation-Date: 2021 
Revision-Date: 2021 
Length: 24 pages 
File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/wpaper/wpaper-2022-1194.pdf 
File-Format: application/pdf 
File-Function: Revised Version, 2023 
Handle: RePEc:gai:wpaper:wpaper-2022-1194