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This paper examines the impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA86), which included an expansion of the earned income tax credit, on the labor force participation and hours of work of single women with children. We identify the impact of TRA86 by comparing the change in labor supply of single

Labor supply and child care choices in a rationed child care market

Over the period 1960 — 1983 the proportion of federal tax revenue raised by taxation of labor supply has risen from 57-77 percent. In this paper, we specify and estimate a model of family labor supply which treats both federal and state taxation. Husbands and wives labor supply are treated jointly

this flexibility, the individual simultaneously determines optimal levels of current consumption, labor effort, and an optimal financial investment strategy at each point in his life cycle. We show that labor and investment choices are intimately related. The ability to vary labor supply ex post induces

This paper provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the impact of the marriage market and divorce legislation on household labor supply. In our approach, the sex ratio in the marriage market and the rules governing divorce are examples of “distribution factors.” These factors are defined

This paper analyses the effect of child labor on household labor supply using 1920 US Census micro data. The aim of the analysis is to understand who in the household benefits from child labor. In order to identify a source of exogenous variation in child labor I use State-specific child labor laws

Figure 1 shows the basics of a theory of recessions. Labor supply and labor demand are nearly flat. A small downward movement of either schedule generates a recession with a substantial decline in employ-ment. Is the story of Figure 1 plausible in the light of all of the evidence

ABSTRACT ____________________________________________________________________ There have been tremendous advances in macroeconomics, following the introduction of labor supply into the field. Today it is widely acknowledged that labor supply matters for many key economic issues, particularly

an adequate conceptual framework for addressing issues linked to the ’targetting ’ of specific benefits or taxes. We also show that the observation of the labor supplies and the household demand for the public good allow to identify individual welfare and the decision process. This requires either a