Fertility and Family Labor Supply

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We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the labor supply responsiveness of couples through a life-cycle model of family labor supply and fertility. Allowing fertility adjustments increases the labor supply responsiveness of women by 28%. These adjustments affect human capital accumulation and has permanent implications for the gender wage gap within couples.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9750

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving ; Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes
• Subject: fertility ; labor supply ; human capital accumulation ; gender inequality ; tax reform ; life-cycle

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Jakobsen, Katrine Marie ; Jørgensen, Thomas H. ; Low, Hamish
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2022

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/260880
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET