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Labour supply and taxes: New estimates of the responses of wives to husbands' wages
Dostie, Benoit; Kromann, Lene - 2012
In this paper, we estimate income- and substitution- labour supply and participation elasticities for Canadian married women using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1996-2005. We use the Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator (CTaCS) and detailed information on the structure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282396
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Determinants of Women's Labor-Force Participation: An Econometric Analysis for Five Countries
Phipps, Shelley A. - 1993
Addresses three hypotheses which may help to explain the differences in the observed labour-force participation rates of women and which can be examined using micro-data from LIS. These include: the importance of income needs, the role of marriage patterns, and the effects of children....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011652825
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The Family Gap in Pay: Evidence from Seven Industrialized Countries
Harkness, Susan; Waldfogel, Jane - 1999
results from seven countries: Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Finland, and Sweden. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011652945
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Women and Part-Time Employment: Workers' 'Choices' and Wage Penalties in Five Industrialized Countries
Bardasi, Elena; Gornick, Janet C. - 2000
consequences of part-time employment among women across five industrialized countries - Canada, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom … everywhere, ranging from 8-12% in Canada and Germany, to 15% in the UK, to as high as 22% in the US and Italy, meaning that part …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011652949
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Gender Agency at the Intersection of State, Market and Family: Changes in Fertility and Maternal Labor Supply in Eight Countries
Cooke, Lynn Prince - 2001
Current debates on the welfare state entail two intertwined questions. First, does a nation have sufficient active labor force participation to maintain the benefits for non-participants? Second, do social provisions exacerbate or attenuate class, ethnic and other distinctions within society? As...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011652975
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Welfare State Regimes and Mothers' Poverty
Christopher, Karen - 2001
In this paper I assess the extent to which welfare states reduce poverty among single mothers and all mothers. I focus on two different typologies of welfare states. One identifies the gendered assumptions underlying social policies, while the other focuses on how welfare states and labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653012
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How Much does Work Matter for Inequality? Time, Money and Inequality in International Perspective
Osberg, Lars - 2002
data on Canada and the USA, UK, Germany, France and Sweden to simulate the income distributions that other countries would … those in Canada, inequality in the USA would change only fractionally. In every other case, poverty and inequality would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653052
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Driving forces of the Canadian economy: An accounting exercise
Cociuba, Simona E.; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - 2008
productivity observed in the Canadian economy. The paper performs a decomposition of the labor factor for Canada and the United … distortions. Moreover, the milder reduction in the labor market distortions observed in Canada, compared to the US, is due to a … relative increase in effective labor taxes in Canada. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280047
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Culture, intermarriage, and differentials in second-generation immigrant women's labor supply
Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Gevrek, Deniz; Gupta, Sonam - 2011
We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282285
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Reproducing occupational inequality: Marriage, parenthood and the gender divide in occupations
Hook, Jennifer L.; Pettit, Becky - 2008
It is well established that class and gender predict occupational placement across advanced industrialized countries. In exploratory analyses the authors document a third dimension to occupational segregation associated with family responsibilities, and consider explanations for cross- national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335586