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Does income taxation affect partners' household chores?

van Soest, Arthur; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2010

We study the impact of income taxation on both partners' allocation of time to market work and unpaid house work in …'s. Tax policy simulations suggest that moving from joint taxation for married couples to separate taxation of each spouse … would go a small step in the direction of equalizing market and non-market work of spouses. Selective taxation with smaller …

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Income taxation, labour supply and housework: A discrete choice model for French couples

Kabátek, Jan; van Soest, Arthur; Stancanelli, Elena - In: Labour Economics 27 (2014) C, pp. 30-43

Earlier studies suggest that income taxation may affect not only labour supply but also domestic work. Here we … investigate the impact of income taxation on partners' labour supply and housework, using data for France that taxes incomes of … replacing joint taxation of married spouses' incomes with separate taxation would increase the husband's housework hours by 1 …

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Optimal taxation, child care and models of the household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014

widens the set of cases in which individual taxation is welfare-superior. …

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Intra-Household Welfare

Chiappori, Pierre-André - 2014

In this paper we develop an approach to measuring inequality and poverty that recognizes the fact that individuals …

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Intrahousehold Inequality

Chiappori, Pierre-André - 2014

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus, measures of inequality that ignore intra household...

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Parental time restrictions and the cost of children : insights from a survey among mothers

Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Pahlke, Kevin - 2018

In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental time restrictions. Building on a study by Koulovatianos et al. (2009) that introduces a novel way of using subjective income evaluation data for such estimations, we conduct a...

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Optimal redistribution with labor supply dependent productivity

Gürer, Eren; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2025

This study examines optimal government redistribution in a Mirrleesian framework, accounting for a negative effect of longer working hours on productivity. A government ignoring this effect perceives labor supply as insufficient and sets lower marginal income taxes to encourage work. In...

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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality

Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...

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The impact of paternity leave on long-term father involvement

Rege, Mari; Solli, Ingeborg Foldøy - 2010

Using Norwegian registry data we investigate how paternity leave affects fathers' long-term earnings. In 1993 Norway introduced a paternity quota of the paid parental leave. We estimate a difference-in-differences model which exploits differences in fathers' exposure to the paternity quota. Our...

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Integrating time in public policy : empirical description of gender-specific outcomes and budgeting

Chakraborty, Lekha S. - 2014

Incorporating time in public policymaking is an elusive area of research. Despite the fact that gender budgeting is emerging as a significant tool to analyze the socioeconomic impacts of fiscal policies and thus identify their impacts on gender equity, the integration of time-use statistics in...

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