This paper provides new estimates of the impact of the French tax credit on the employment outcomes of women. We model simultaneously the employment probability and the determinants of programme eligibility. We improve on earlier studies in this field that, using a single evaluation equation...

We investigate spillovers in spousal labour supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by the introduction of the shorter workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that female and male employees treated by the shorter legal workweek reduce their weekly labour supply by...

Der Fokus der Studie liegt bei der Frage, ob die Regulierungen in den Steuer- und Sozialversicherungssystemen die in allen zehn untersuchten Ländern Entwicklung weg vom Ernährermodell und hin zum Zweiverdienerhaushalt als dominantem familialem Erwerbsmuster unterstützen oder eher behindern....