a negative cross-country correlation between gender ratios in market hours and wages. We find that market hours by women … and the size of the service sector that produces close substitutes to home production are important for the gender … differences in market hours across countries. We quantify the role played by taxes and subsidies to family care on the two gender …

The gender wage gap and the gender work gap are sizable, persistent and well documented for many countries. The result … of the gender wage and gender work gap combined is an income gap between men and women. A small literature has begun to … examine how the tax-benefit system contributes to closing gender income gaps by redistributing between men and women. In this …