Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 10,266
Cover Image
Family Labor Supply With Taxes
Hausman, Jerry A. - 1984
taxation is estimated to be 29.6% of tax revenue raised. The effect of the new 10% deduction to ease the marriage tax for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477825
Cover Image
Wage Inequality and Family Labor Supply
Juhn, Chinhui - 1996
Using data from the March CPS and the 1960 Census, this paper describes earnings and employment changes for married couples in different types of households stratified by the husband's hourly wage. While the declines in male employment and earnings have been greatest for low wage men, employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473403
Cover Image
The Optimal Income Taxation of Couples
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen - 2006
This paper analyzes the optimal income tax treatment of couples. Each couple is modelled as a single rational economic agent supplying labor along two dimensions: primary and secondary earnings. We consider fully general joint income tax systems. Separate taxation is never optimal if social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465976
Cover Image
Home Production, Market Production and the Gender Wage Gap : Incentives and Expectations
Albanesi, Stefania - 2006
The purpose of this paper is to study the joint determination of gender differentials in labor market outcomes and in … amplify differences in earnings due to gender differentials in home hours. In turn, earnings differentials reinforce the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466456
Cover Image
The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor
Falcao, Bruno L. S. - 2007
This paper presents a theory where increases in female labor force participation and reductions in the gender wage …. It generates changes in fertility, labor market attachment, and the gender wage-gap as part of a single process of social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465818
Cover Image
Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores
Alesina, Alberto - 2007
Gender-Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's rule of optimality because it taxes at a lower rate the more elastic … society can resolve its distributional concerns efficiently with gender-specific lump sum transfers, GBT with higher marginal … balanced allocation of labor market outcomes across spouses and a smaller gender gap in labor supply elasticities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465001
Cover Image
Taxation and Household Decisions : an Intertemporal Analysis
Bronson, Mary Ann; Haanwinckel, Daniel; Mazzocco, Maurizio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
labor supply, marriage and divorce decisions with limited commitment, household production, human capital accumulation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056188
Cover Image
The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Labor Supply of Married Couples
Eissa, Nada - 1998
popular view that the credit is unlikely to hold among married couples. Theory suggests that primary earners (typically men … interest is the response to changes in the budget set induced by the EITC, our estimation strategy takes account of budget set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471956
Cover Image
Slowing Women's Labor Force Participation : The Role of Income Inequality
Albanesi, Stefania; Prados, María José - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-2005 particularly for college women. The model can also account for the rise in the gender wage gap for college graduates relative to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814450
Cover Image
Consumption Insurance Against Wage Risk : Family Labor Supply and Optimal Progressive Income Taxation
Wu, Chunzan - 2019
We show that a calibrated life-cycle two-earner household model with endogenous labor supply can rationalize the extent of consumption insurance against shocks to male and female wages, as estimated empirically by Blundell, Pistaferri and Saporta-Eksten (2016) in U.S. data. In the model, 35% of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480409