Arbeitspapier

Social subsidies and marketization: The role of gender and skill

This paper decomposes the differences in aggregate market hours between US and Europe across gender-skill groups and finds that low-skilled women are the biggest contributors to aggregate differences, with the exception of Nordic countries. We develop a model to account for the gender-skill differences in market hours across countries. Taxes, which reduce market hours in favor of leisure and home production, explain a substantial fraction of the differences in hours for Southern and Central European countries. Subsidized family care, which reduces home hours of women in favor of market hours, explains the different pattern of hours in Nordic countries. Low-skilled women are more responsive to policy because of their comparative advantage in producing home services and the corresponding market substitutes.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 962

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Fiscal Policy
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Thema
Cross-country Differences in Market Hours
Home Production
Subsidies on Family Care

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Duval-Hernández, Robert
Fang, Lei
Ngai, Liwa Rachel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2018

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Duval-Hernández, Robert
  • Fang, Lei
  • Ngai, Liwa Rachel
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Entstanden

  • 2018

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