Taxes, Social Subsidies and the Allocation of Work Time

Christopher Pissarides and L. Rachel Ngai

No 8328, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We examine the allocation of hours of work across industrial sectors in OECD countries. We find large disparities across three sector groups, one that produces goods without home substitutes, and two others that have home substitutes but treated differently by welfare policy. We attribute the disparities to the countries' tax and subsidy policies. High taxation substantially reduces hours in sectors that have close home substitutes but less so in other sectors. Subsidies increase hours in the subsidized sectors that have home substitutes. We compute these policy effects for nineteen OECD countries.

Keywords: Allocation of time; Home production; Multisector model; Social subsidies; Tax wedge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E2 H5 J2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-04
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