Labor Supply: A Review of Alternative Approaches

Blundell, Richard; MaCurdy, Thomas

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“…It is also worth noting that low labor force participation of countries like the U.S., Germany, France and Portugal are countries that tax jointly household income. 7 …”

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“…Let H be a proportional tax on the labor income of the male, and let L be a proportional tax on the 6 For instance, the average recorded marginal rate at …ve times mean income is about 34.0%, more than six percentage points above the marginal rate computed from our e¤ective tax function. 7 The U.S. and Germany are joint taxation countries where the unit of taxation is household and tax liabilities are calculated based on total household income. France and Portugal are family taxation countries, where tax liabilities are calculated roughly by dividing total household income by the number of family members.…”

Section: Taxing Married Women Di¤erentlymentioning

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Taxing women: A macroeconomic analysis

Guner

Kaygusuz

Ventura

2012

Journal of Monetary Economics

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Based on well-known evidence on labor supply elasticities, several authors have concluded that women should be taxed at lower rates than men. We evaluate the quantitative implications of taxing women at a lower rate than men. Relative to the current system of taxation, setting a proportional tax rate on married females equal to 4% (8%) increases output and married female labor force participation by about 3.9% (3.4%) and 6.9% (4.0%), respectively. Gender-based taxes improve welfare and are preferred by a majority of households. Nevertheless, welfare gains are higher when the U.S. tax system is replaced by a proportional, gender-neutral income tax.JEL Classi…cations: E62, H31, J12, J22

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“…It is also worth noting that low labor force participation of countries like the U.S., Germany, France and Portugal are countries that tax jointly household income. 7 …”

Section: Current Us Taxesmentioning

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Taxing women: A macroeconomic analysis

Guner

Kaygusuz

Ventura

2012

Journal of Monetary Economics

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“…The estimated wage elasticity for women is positive, but there is a very wide range of dispersion among estimates (Blundell and MaCurdy, 1999, Cahuc and Zylberberg, 2003, Evers et al 2006. Evers et al (2006).…”

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“…Important extensions to the individual approach to labour supply include the development of a collective framework for the study of family labour supply and the introduction of household production (see Blundell and MaCurdy, 1999, for a discussion of this approach):…”

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Explaining Differences in Hours Worked among OECD Countries

Causa

2008

OECD Economics Department Working Papers

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JT03242014This working paper investigates the policy determinants of hours worked among employed individuals in OECD countries, focussing on the impact of taxation, working-time regulations, and other labour and product market policies. It explores the factors underlying cross-country differences in hours worked -in line with previous aggregate approaches -while at the same time it looks more closely at labour force heterogeneity -in the vein of microeconomic labour supply models. The paper shows that policies and institutions have a different impact on working hours of men and women. Firstly, while high marginal taxes create a disincentive to work longer hours for women, their impact on hours worked by men is almost insignificant. Secondly, working-time regulations have a significant impact on hours worked by men, and this impact differs across education categories. Thirdly, other labour and product market policies, in particular stringent employment protection of workers on regular contracts and competition-restraining product market policies, have a negative impact on hours worked by men, over and beyond their impact on employment levels.

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“…The central part of the positive analysis is the empirical estimation of the models of individual behavior in order to assess the quantitative magnitudes of behavioral responses. In the United States and the United Kingdom, there is an enormous literature trying to estimate the size of the behavioral responses to most government transfer programs (see, e.g., Bane and Ellwood 1994;Blundell and MaCurdy 1999;and Krueger and Meyer 2002 for recent surveys). The literature in other countries is smaller but growing quickly.…”

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Redistribution toward Low Incomes in Richer Countries

Saez¹

2006

Understanding Poverty

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This essay presents a critical overview of the findings of economic research on the problem of redistribution toward low incomes in developed countries. The discussion is organized as follows. The second section briefly describes the positive and empirical analysis (for which numerous good surveys are available) and focuses mostly on the normative analysis. The third section starts with a discussion of the optimal structure of cash transfer programs, then extends the analysis of optimal transfer programs along various new dimensions. The fourth section discusses how the results of the third section might be affected in situations where individuals may not be able to make the best choices for themselves. The fifth section provides a conclusion and an educated view on what should be done for redistribution toward low incomes.

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Labor Supply: A Review of Alternative Approaches

Cited by 1,316 publications

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Taxing women: A macroeconomic analysis

Taxing women: A macroeconomic analysis

Explaining Differences in Hours Worked among OECD Countries

Redistribution toward Low Incomes in Richer Countries

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