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Tax-Benefits Reforms and the Labor Market : Evidence from Belgium and Other EU Countries
Orsini, Kristian - 2007
on being in employment. This paper surveys recent tax-benefit reforms in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, The UK, France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012731803
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Time Allocation between Work and Family Over the Life-Cycle : A Comparative Gender Analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States
Anxo, Dominique; Flood, Lennart; Mencarini, Letizia; … - 2021
This article analyzes the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …), we show large discrepancies in the gender division of labor at the different life stages. This gender gap exists in all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316675
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The rise of part-time work : a German-French comparison
Marotzke, Petra - 2019
I study possible determinants of part-time employment among women in France and Germany using microdata of the Labour … Force Survey. Voluntary part-time work is substantially more widespread among women in Germany than it is in France …. Estimation results show that while the presence of children and marital status are related to the choice to work part time in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014104
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Does income taxation affect partners’ household chores?
Soest, Arthur van; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2010
, which taxes incomes of married couples jointly, like, for instance, Germany and the US. We find that both partners’ market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985866
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Labor income responds differently to income-tax and payroll-tax reforms
Lehmann, Etienne; Marical, François; Rioux, Laurence - 2012
We estimate the responses of gross labor income with respect to marginal and average net-of-tax rates in France over the period 2003-2006. We exploit a series of reforms to the income-tax and payroll-tax schedules affecting individuals who earn less than twice the minimum wage. Our estimate for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009659356
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Labor earnings respond differently to income-tax and to payroll-tax reforms
Lehmann, Etienne; Marical, François; Rioux, Laurence - 2011
We estimate the responses of gross labor earnings with respect to marginal and average net-of-tax rates in France over the period 2003-2006. We exploit a series of reforms to the income-tax and the payroll-tax schedules that affect individuals who earn less than twice the minimum wage. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519898
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On modeling household labor supply with taxation
Bargain, Olivier (contributor) - 2007
Discrete choice models of labor supply easily account for nonlinearty and nonconvexity in budget sets caused by tax-benefit systems. As a result, they have become very popular for ex ante evaluations of policy reforms. In this paper, we question whether the degree of flexibility and the implicit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003616594
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Consumption and hours between the United States and France
Fang, Lei; Yang, Fang - 2021
We document large differences between the United States and France in allocations of consumption expenditures and time by age. Using a life-cycle model, we quantify to what extent tax and transfer programs and market and home productivity can account for the differences. We find that while labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425267
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Female labor supply and child care in France
Choné, Philippe; Le Blanc, David; Robert-Bobée, Isabelle - 2003
We use French household data to estimate a structural model of female labor supply and use of paid child care outside the home. Child care costs are found to have little impact on the labor market participation decision of mothers. The model is used to study various policy issues. The influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511040
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Does Income Taxation Affect Partners' Household Chores?
van Soest, Arthur - 2010
, which taxes incomes of married couples jointly, like, for instance, Germany and the US. We find that both partners' market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141229