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Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Couples across Countries: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola and Alexander Bick
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Nicola Fuchs-Schuendeln

No 9115, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 19 OECD countries. We quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes, as well as male and female wages, to the international differences in the data. Our model replicates the comparatively small differences of married men's hours worked very well. Moreover, taxes and wages account for a large part of the observed substantial differences in married women's labor supply between the US and Western, Eastern, and Northern Europe, but cannot explain the low labor supply of married women in Southern Europe.

Keywords: Hours worked; Taxation; Two-earner households (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E60 H20 H31 J12 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-eec, nep-eur, nep-lab and nep-mac
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