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Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Couples Across Countries : A Macroeconomic Analysis

Bick, Alexander - 2017

We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 17 European countries and the US. Based on a model of joint household decision making, we quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes...

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Marriage and Consumption Insurance : What's Love Got to Do with it?

Hess, Gregory D. - 2021

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their … love. Is love more important to a lasting marriage than economic compatibility? To answer this question, I develop a simple … model where rational individuals meet, enjoy the economic and non-pecuniary benefits of marriage (i.e., love), and then must …

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Marriage and Employment Participation with Wage Bargaining in Search Equilibrium

Bonilla, Roberto - 2017

The empirical literature addressing links between the labor and marriage markets is numerous. Despite this, the …-Coles (1997) do not apply for a marriage market linked to this labor market and discuss the consequences of this …

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Partnership, Gender Roles and the Well-Being Cost of Unemployment

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2021

We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze how a person’s employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which...

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Rank Dependent Utility, Tax Evasion and Labor Supply

Eide, Erling - 2010

In the simple Allingham-Sandmo portfolio model of tax evasion an expected utility maximizer will cheat more than what is estimated in empirical studies. Two main types of explanation have been suggested as solutions to this puzzle: (1) Tax payers act according to some non-expected utility...

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Fertility, Female Labor Supply, and Family Policy

Fehr, Hans - 2011

The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model's benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy...

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Beyond Ramsey : Gender-Based Taxation with Non-Cooperative Couples

Meier, Volker - 2012

This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non-cooperative model of a couple's time allocation between market work and providing a household public good. We find that the optimal structure of differential taxation by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative...

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Public Child Care and Mothers' Labor Supply - Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2013

Public child care is expected to assist families in reconciling work with family life. Yet, empirical evidence for the relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place in kindergarten in Germany, which was contingent...

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To Work or Not to Work? The Effect of Child-Care Subsidies on the Labour Supply of Parents

Kosonen, Tuomas - 2013

This paper studies the effect of child-care subsidies on parental labour supply. I use variation arising from changes in the municipality-specific supplement to Finnish child homecare allowance to identify the causal effect of subsidies on the labour force participation of parents. The variation...

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Reforming Family Taxation in Germany - Labor Supply vs. Insurance Effects

Fehr, Hans - 2013

The present paper quantifies the economic consequences of eliminating the system of income splitting in Germany. We apply a dynamic simulation model with overlapping generations where single and married agents have to decide on labor supply and homework facing income and lifespan risk. The...

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