Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores

Alesina, Alberto; Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas

doi:10.3386/w13638

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“…Note that our policy of gender-based family aid can be seen as being equivalent to a lower marginal tax rate for women, as it reduces the gap between the take-home pay of men and women. Our result hence differs from the argument made by Alesina, Ichino, and Karabarbounis (2011) who propose different taxation for men and women. In their reasoning, the asymmetry across genders arises from women having a higher elasticity of labor supply than men.…”

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On Gender Gaps and Self‐fulfilling Expectations: Alternative Implications of Paid‐for Training

Dolado¹,

Garcı́a-Peñalosa²,

Rica

2012

Economic Inquiry

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This paper presents a model of self‐fulfilling expectations by firms and households which generates multiplicity of equilibria in pay and housework time allocation for ex‐ante identical spouses. Multiplicity arises from statistical discrimination exerted by firms in the provision of paid‐for training to workers, rather than from incentive problems in the labor market. Employers' beliefs about differences in spouses' reactions to housework shocks lead to symmetric (ungendered) and asymmetric (gendered) equilibria. We find that: (1) the ungendered equilibrium tends to prevail as aggregate productivity in the economy increases (regardless of the generosity of family aid policies), (2) the ungendered equilibrium could yield higher welfare under some scenarios, and (3) gender‐neutral job subsidies are more effective that gender‐targeted ones in removing the gendered equilibrium. (JEL J16, J70, J71)

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On Gender Gaps and Self‐fulfilling Expectations: Alternative Implications of Paid‐for Training

Dolado¹,

Garcı́a-Peñalosa²,

Rica

2012

Economic Inquiry

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“…Second, there might be other factors left out of our investigation framework, which could play a role. Most importantly, the tax regime and the system of benefits are supposed to influence the labor market choices of lone individuals and individuals within couples (Alesina et al, 2009;Apps and Rees, 1999. Given the complexity of the issue, the theoretical discussion is still ongoing.…”

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Labor Force Participation of Women in the EU – What Role do Family Policies Play?

Gehringer¹,

Klasen

2016

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We empirically study the role of different family policies in affecting women's labor market behavior in the European Union. Women tend to assume more family duties than men and, consequently, often participate less in the labor market. Family policies aim to support families in general while a particular focus is on helping women to reconcile family duties with labor market participation. Their impact, however, is not clear, especially when it comes to different forms of labor market activity. We use a static and dynamic panel econometric framework examining the link between financial support for four types of family policies and labor force participation as well as (part‐time and full‐time) employment. The results suggest no stable significant impact of expenditures on family policies on overall labor force participation. However, higher spending on family allowance, cash benefits, and daycare benefits appears to promote part‐time employment, whereas only spending on parental leave schemes is a significant positive determinant of women's full‐time employment.

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“…Our methodology is similar to Gruber and Saez (2002) and Gelber (2014), and complements their work with a focus on home production, which offers a direct perspective on gender identity norms. To our knowledge, this analysis provides the first causal estimates of the impact of taxation on the household division of home production, an effect which has been theoretically studied by Alesina et al (2011).…”

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Economic Incentives, Home Production and Gender Identity Norms

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We infer the role of gender identity norms from the reallocation of childcare across parents, following changes in their relative wages. By exploiting variation from a Swedish tax reform, we estimate the elasticity of substitution in parental childcare for the whole population and for demographic groups potentially adhering to differently binding norms. We find that immigrant, married and male breadwinner couples, as well as couples with a male first-born, react more strongly to tax changes that induce a more traditional allocation of spouses' time, while the respective counterpart couples react more strongly to tax changes that induce a more egalitarian division of labor.

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Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores

Cited by 99 publications

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On Gender Gaps and Self‐fulfilling Expectations: Alternative Implications of Paid‐for Training

On Gender Gaps and Self‐fulfilling Expectations: Alternative Implications of Paid‐for Training

Labor Force Participation of Women in the EU – What Role do Family Policies Play?

Economic Incentives, Home Production and Gender Identity Norms

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