Taxes and Market Hours -- the Role of Gender and Skill
Rachel Ngai,
Lei Fang and
Robert Duval-Hernandez
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Rachel Ngai: london school of economics
No 680, 2017 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics
Abstract:
This paper documents that cross-country difference in aggregate market hours is mainly due to women's market hours, especially low-skilled women. Using a multi- sector model that allows for both gender and skill dimensions, it shows that taxes and social subsidies on family care account for a substantial fraction of the observed cross- country pattern in market hours. Both substitution margins across work and leisure and across market and home are important. Effects of taxes operate through both margins while social subsidies operate mainly through the second margin. The first margin affects all population groups while the second margin affects mostly women especially low-skilled.
Date: 2017
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