Booth, AL and Coles, M (2008) Tax Policy and Returns to Education. UNSPECIFIED. Australian National University, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Discussion Papers.
Booth, AL and Coles, M (2008) Tax Policy and Returns to Education. UNSPECIFIED. Australian National University, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Discussion Papers.
Booth, AL and Coles, M (2008) Tax Policy and Returns to Education. UNSPECIFIED. Australian National University, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Discussion Papers.
Abstract
This paper considers how asymmetric tax treatment, where labour market earnings are taxed but household production is untaxed, aspects educational choice and labour supply. We show that taxes on labour market earnings can generate a large (non-marginal) switch to home production and the ensuing deadweight losses are large. Using a cross-country panel, we find that gender differences in labour supply responses to tax policy can explain differences in aggregate labour supply and years of education across countries.
| Item Type: | Monograph (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Increasing returns; tax policy; gender; labour supply; education |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Department of |
| SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2012 17:45 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2022 13:20 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/3105 |