Marriage stability, taxation and aggregate labor supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Marriage stability, taxation and aggregate labor supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro-data from the United States and 17 European countries, we document that women are typically the largest contributors to the cross-country differences in work hours. We also show that there is a negative relation between taxes and annual hours worked, driven by men, and a positive relation between divorce rates and annual hours worked, driven by women. In a calibrated life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents, marriage and divorce, we find that the divorce and tax mechanisms together can explain 45% of the variation in labor supply between the United States and the European countries.
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Chakraborty, Indraneel
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Holter, Hans
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Stepanchuk, Serhiy
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Chakraborty, Indraneel
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Holter, Hans
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Stepanchuk, Serhiy
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Chakraborty, Indraneel, Holter, Hans and Stepanchuk, Serhiy
(2015)
Marriage stability, taxation and aggregate labor supply in the U.S. vs. Europe.
Journal of Monetary Economics, 72, .
(doi:10.1016/j.jmoneco.2015.01.001).
Abstract
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro-data from the United States and 17 European countries, we document that women are typically the largest contributors to the cross-country differences in work hours. We also show that there is a negative relation between taxes and annual hours worked, driven by men, and a positive relation between divorce rates and annual hours worked, driven by women. In a calibrated life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents, marriage and divorce, we find that the divorce and tax mechanisms together can explain 45% of the variation in labor supply between the United States and the European countries.
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Accepted/In Press date: 7 January 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 21 January 2015
Published date: May 2015
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Economics
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/402800
ISSN: 0304-3932
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