Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005
countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle variation in time use … can be explained by public policy, focusing on the tax treatment of the female partner and on access to high quality … presence of pre-school children, in combination with the tax treatment of the second earner’s income and the cost of bought …