Analyzing Female Labor Supply: Evidence from a Dutch Tax Reform

Nicole Bosch () and Bas van der Klaauw
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Nicole Bosch: CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis

No 4238, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Among OECD countries, the Netherlands has average female labor force participation, but by far the highest rate of part-time work. This paper investigates the extent to which married women respond to financial incentives. We exploit the exogenous variation caused by a substantial Dutch tax reform in 2001. Our main conclusion is that the positive significant effect of tax reform on labor force participation dominates the negative insignificant effect on working hours. Our preferred explanation is that women respond more to changes in tax allowances than to changes in marginal tax rates.

Keywords: uncompensated wage elasticity; labor force participation; working hours; endogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H24 J22 J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2009-06
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Published - published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 271-280

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