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Collective Female Labour Supply : Theory and Application

Donni, Olivier - 2021

In this paper, we deal with female labour supply in the collective framework. We study married couples and start from the empirical observation that the husband's labour supply is generally fixed at full-time. We then show that, in this case, structural elements of the decision process, such as...

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Accounting for limited commitment between spouses when estimating labor-supply elasticities

Bredemeier, Christian; Gravert, Jan Hendrik; Jüßen, Falko - 2021

The Frisch elasticity of labor supply can be estimated by regressing hours worked on the hourly wage rate, controlling for consumption of the individual worker. However, most household panel surveys contain consumption information only at the household level. We show that proxying individual...

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Reform proposal for marriage taxation in Germany : de facto income splitting with a low transferable amount

Bach, Stefan; Fischer, Björn; Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 41/42, pp. 423-432

Two traditional options for reforming Ehegattensplitting, the joint taxation of married couples with full income splitting, are de facto income splitting (Realsplitting) or individual taxation with a transferable personal allowance. However, these proposals do not significantly reduce the...

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Less alimony after divorce : spouses' behavioral response to the 2008 alimony reform in Germany

Bredtmann, Julia; Vonnahme, Christina - 2017

The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household allocation of leisure, and marital stability. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and...

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Body-weight and women's hours of work : more evidence that marriage markets matter

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2017

Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …

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Taxation and labor supply of married couples across countries : a macroeconomic analysis

Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2017

We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 17 European countries and the US. Based on a model of joint household decision making, we quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes...

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Taxation and labor supply of married couples across countries : a macroeconomic analysis

Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2017

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Husbands' and wives' diverging perceptions on who decides

Schwefer, Maximilian; Poutvaara, Panu - 2018

An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically measured by surveying only one partner, but the few studies surveying both have documented large differences in perceptions. We analyze these perceptions and their consequences, using...

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Job displacement, family dynamics and spousal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Schmieder, Julia; Weber, Andrea - 2018 - This version: October 17, 2018

We study the effectiveness of intra-household insurance among married couples when the husband loses his job due to a mass layoff or plant closure. Empirical results based on Austrian administrative data show that husbands suffer persistent employment and earnings losses, while wives' labor...

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Marriage markets as explanation for why heavier people work more hours

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 6 (2017) 9, pp. 1-30

Is BMI related to hours of work through marriage market mechanisms? We empirically explore this issue using data from …, suggesting that single women may expect future in-marriage transfers that vary by body weight. We show that the positive … association between BMI and hours of work of White single women increases with self-assessed probability of future marriage and …

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