Essays on Worker Productivity and Labor Supply

This thesis is a collection of essays exploring factors that affect developing country workers’ productivity, well-being and labor supply. The first essay explores how workers labor supply is affected by transitory income shocks. In neoclassical models, transitory income shocks should not affect lab...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bessone Tepedino, Pedro
Other Authors: Schilbach, Frank
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/140368