Gender norms, work hours, and corrective taxation
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Gender norms, work hours, and corrective taxation
This paper deals with optimal income taxation based on a model with households where men and women allocate their time between market work and household production, and where households di¤er depending on which spouse has comparative advantage in market work. The purpose is to analyze the tax policy implications of gender norms represented by a market-work norm for men and household-work norm f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2214-8043
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2015.03.001