of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we … estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net replacement rate before and after marriage. We show that the … marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …

of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we … estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net replacement rate before and after marriage. We show that the … marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …

durchschnittlicher Einkommen, wie in Deutschland, nicht ausschließlich den Rückzug des zweiten Partners, also vor allem der Frauen, vom … Arbeitsmarkt. Vielmehr wird auch die Kombination von einem Vollzeit- und einem Teilzeitarbeitsverhältnis in einem Haushalt … Germany, do not give only incentives for the withdrawel of the second partner, mostly women, from the labour market. The …

. Motivated by these observations, we develop a life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents, marriage and divorce and use it to … study the impact of two mechanisms on labor supply: (i) differences in marriage stability and (ii) differences in tax … systems, and as we replace the U.S. divorce and marriage rates with their European equivalents. We find that the divorce and …

The distribution of total work in the EU and USA / Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, and Philippe Weil -- Comments …