TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Blundell, Richard
AU  - Brewer, Mike
AU  - Francesconi, Marco
        TI  - Job Changes and Hours Changes: Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment
        PY  - 2007/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3044
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3044
        AB  - This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women’s labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reforms changed individuals’ work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply. We find evidence of small hours of work effects for two of such reforms. A third reform in 1999 instead led to a significant increase in single mothers’ hours of work. The mechanism by which the labour supply adjustments were made occurred largely through job changes rather than hours changes with the same employer. These results are confirmed when we look at hours changes by stated labour supply preferences. Finally, we find little overall effect of the reforms on wages.
        KW  - ob mobility
KW  - hours flexibility
KW  - labour supply preferences
KW  - hours-wage trade-off
KW  - monopsony
        ER  -