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The Intertemporal Substitution Model of Labor Supply in an Open Economy

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  • João Ricardo Faria
  • Miguel León-Ledesma

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The intertemporal substitution model of labor supply has been based on closed economy models. This paper studies the intertemporal substitution hypothesis in an open economy. It derives the long run labor supply as a function of the real wage, real interest rate and real exchange rate from a standard open economy optimizing representative agent model. The paper tests the steady state solution of the model for the US and, in order to avoid the Lucas critique, it tests for the superexogeneity of the interest rate and exchange rate. In accordance with the theory, the empirical evidence is supportive of the intertemporal substitution hypothesis, the significant impact of the real exchange rate, and is robust to the Lucas critique.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, University of Kent in its series Studies in Economics with number 0009.

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Date of creation: Oct 2000
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Handle: RePEc:ukc:ukcedp:0009

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Keywords: Intertemporal substitution; Labor supply; Interest rate; Exchange rate;

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  1. Hian Teck Hoon & Edmund S. Phelps, 2005. "A Structuralist Model of the Small Open Economy in the Short, Medium and Long Run," Macroeconomics Working Papers 22436, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research.

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