This paper considers the impact of taxation policy on market work. On the basis of theevidence, we find that a 10 percentage point rise in the tax wedge will reduce overall labourinput provided via the market by around 2 per cent of the population of working age. The taxwedge is the sum of the...

The purpose of this paper is to study the causes of unemployment empirically, using individual data and an approach that refines on that of Meyer and Wise. Using the French 1997 Labor Survey data, we decompose non-employment of married women into three components: voluntary, classical (due to...