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Relational contracts, taxation and the household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2009

utility distribution, and then apply the model to examine the effects of a move from joint to individual taxation. We show …-household welfare distribution. -- Relational contracts ; households ; allocations ; taxation ; welfare distribution …

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Relational Contracts, Taxation and the Household

Apps, Patricia F. - 2009

utility distribution, and then apply the model to examine the effects of a move from joint to individual taxation. We show …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159339

Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives: Evidence from Sweden

Gelber, Alexander M. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 2, pp. 287-305

I examine the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax rates changed independently, allowing me to examine the effect of both spouses' incentives on each spouse's behavior. I analyze the large Swedish tax reform of 1990–1991 and find that in...

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Relational Contracts, Taxation and the Household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

utility distribution, and then apply the model to examine the effects of a move from joint to individual taxation. We show …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999151

Will you civil union me? Taxation and civil unions in France

Leturcq, Marion - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 5, pp. 541-552

introduced civil union (pacs) as an alternative legal union to marriage. I assess the impact of taxation on the decision to …-in-differences-in-differences setting to estimate bounds to the impact of the reform. My results find a positive and increasing impact of taxation on pacs … rates, but also a change in the timing of pacs unions suggesting that taxation alters the decision to contract a pacs. In …

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The impact of short- and long-term participation tax rates on labor supply

Bartels, Charlotte; Pestel, Nico - 2015

Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take up work. Using German microdata over the period...

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Do Family Policies Affect Births, Maternal Employment and Marital Stability?

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Malkova, Olga - 2021

This paper examines the effect of the introduction of a 1982 maternity benefit program on childbearing, employment and marital stability in the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The program included one year of partially paid leave and a small cash payment at birth. We...

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The role of coresidency with adult children in the labor force participation decisions of older men and women in China

Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged - rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...

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Heterogeneity and long-run changes in U.S. hours and the labor wedge

Cociuba, Simona E.; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - 2012

From 1980 until 2007, U.S. average hours worked increased by thirteen percent, due to a large increase in female hours. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured as the discrepancy between a representative household's marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure and the...

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Labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 2011

preferences. We derive important implications for research on optimal taxation. …

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