Labor Supply as a Choice Among Latent Jobs: Unobserved Heterogeneity and Identification
将劳动供给视为潜在工作选择:不可观测异质性与识别
This paper discusses aspects of a modeling framework in which the notion of job choice is fundamental. In this framework, workers are assumed to have preferences over latent job opportunities belonging to worker-specific choice sets from which they choose their preferred job. The main contribution of this paper is an analysis of the identification problem under various conditions, when conventional cross-section micro-data are applied. The modeling framework is applied to…