| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP14196 |
| DP14196 Are marriage-related taxes and Social Security benefits holding back female labor supply? | |
| Mariacristina De Nardi; Margherita Borella; Fang Yang | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-12-12 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In the United States, both taxes and old age Social Security benefits depend on one's marital status and tend to discourage the labor supply of the secondary earner. To what extent are these provisions holding back female labor supply? We estimate a rich life cycle model of labor supply and savings for couples and singles using the method of simulated moments (MSM) on the 1945 and 1955 birth-year cohorts and use it to evaluate what would happen without these provisions. Our model matches well the life cycle profiles of labor market participation, hours, and savings for married and single people and generates plausible elasticities of labor supply. Eliminating marriage-related provisions drastically increases the participation of married women over their entire life cycle, reduces the participation of married men after age 60, and increases the savings of couples in both cohorts, including the later one, which has similar participation to that of more recent generations. If the resulting government surplus were used to lower income taxation, there would be large welfare gains for the vast majority of the population. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics and Growth ; Public Economics |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp14196 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543083 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mariacristina De Nardi,Margherita Borella,Fang Yang. DP14196 Are marriage-related taxes and Social Security benefits holding back female labor supply?. 2019. |
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