Arbeitspapier

Tax structure and female labour market participation: Evidence from Ireland

How great an effect does the structure of income taxes have on women's labour market participation? This issue is investigated using a discrete choice static labour supply model for married couples in Ireland. The model incorporates fixed costs of working and simultaneously explains participation decisions and preferred hours of work. Details of the tax system are fully incorporated, and key elements of the welfare system are also taken into account. The model is estimated using data from the 1994 wave of the Living in Ireland Survey. The results are used to analyse the labour supply effects of a move to greater independence in the tax treatment of couples. The influence of tax structure on participation is reconsidered in the light of trends in women's participation in the labour market and two key changes in the structure of taxation: a shift from a joint or aggregated basis of assessment to an 'income-splitting' system in 1980 and a further substantial shift from income-splitting towards greater independence from 2000 onwards.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ESRI Working Paper ; No. 208

Classification
Wirtschaft
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Subject
Weibliche Arbeitskräfte
Einkommensteuertarif
Familienbesteuerung
Diskrete Entscheidung
Frauen
Schätzung
Irland

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Callan , Tim
van Soest, Arthur
Walsh, J. R.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)
(where)
Dublin
(when)
2007

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Callan , Tim
  • van Soest, Arthur
  • Walsh, J. R.
  • The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)

Time of origin

  • 2007

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