| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26097 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26097 |
| Are Marriage-Related Taxes and Social Security Benefits Holding Back Female Labor Supply? | |
| Margherita Borella; Mariacristina De Nardi; Fang Yang | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-07-22 |
| 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 dynamic life-cycle model of labor supply and savings for couples and singles using the Method of Simulated Moments for the 1945 and 1955 birth cohorts. 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. It implies that eliminating these marriage-related provisions would drastically increase the participation of married women over their entire life cycle, reduce the participation of married men after age 60, and increase savings. If the resulting government surplus were used to lower income taxation, there would be large welfare gains for the vast majority of the population. These results hold for both cohorts, including the later one, which has similar participation to that of more recent generations. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment ; Public Economics ; Taxation ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Compensation |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26097 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583770 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Margherita Borella,Mariacristina De Nardi,Fang Yang. Are Marriage-Related Taxes and Social Security Benefits Holding Back Female Labor Supply?. 2019. |
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