Duval-Hernández, Robert; Fang, Lei; Ngai, Liwa Rachel - 2017
Cross-country differences of market hours in 17 OECD countries are mainly due to the hours of women, especially low …-skilled women. This paper develops a model to account for the gender-skill differences in market hours across countries. The model … explains a substantial fraction of the differences in hours by taxes, which reduce market hours in favor of leisure and home …