Arbeitspapier
Optimal taxation, child care and models of the household
This paper presents for the first time the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction of second earner wage differences, variation in prices of bought-in inputs into household production in the form of child care, and domestic productivity differences as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second earner labour supply. The analysis highlights the importance of the elasticity of substitution between parental and non-parental child care in determining the relationship between utility and income across households. A central result is that taking account of a richer and more realistic specification of household time use widens the set of cases in which individual taxation is welfare-superior to joint taxation.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6823
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
- Thema
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optimal taxation
time allocation
household production
child care
inequality
labour supply
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Apps, Patricia
Rees, Ray
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
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2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Apps, Patricia
- Rees, Ray
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2012