The rise in female employment and the role of tax incentives. An empirical analysis of the Swedish individual tax reform of 1971

Selin, Håkan

doi:10.1007/s10797-013-9283-y

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“…Our central estimate of 0.13 is well below the participation elasticities of married Swedish women estimated by Selin (2014). Selin exploited the 1971 Swedish tax reform which implied a switch from joint to individual taxation and found estimates in the range 0.5-1.0.…”

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The Anatomy of the Extensive Margin Labor Supply Response*

Bastani

Moberg

Selin

2020

Scandinavian J Economics

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No previous quasi-experimental paper has systematically examined the relationship between the extensive margin labor supply response to taxation and the employment level. We model the labor force participation margin and estimate participation responses for married women in Sweden using population-wide administrative data and a solid identification strategy. The participation elasticity is more than twice as large in the lowest-skill sample (with relatively low employment) as compared with the highest-skill sample (with high employment). Our analysis suggests that cross-and within country comparisons of participation elasticities always should be made with reference to the relevant employment level.

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The Anatomy of the Extensive Margin Labor Supply Response*

Bastani

Moberg

Selin

2020

Scandinavian J Economics

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“…We also 22 See Bastani et al (2016) for further discussion about the relationship between the participation elasticity and the employment level. 23 The estimates reported by Selin (2014) and Bastani et al (2016) may at first glance seem very different. They are however consistent if one notices that Selin (2014) reports that the pre-reform share of married women with positive earnings was 67% (Table 8) whereas the corresponding share in Bastani et al (2016) is 90%.…”

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“…23 The estimates reported by Selin (2014) and Bastani et al (2016) may at first glance seem very different. They are however consistent if one notices that Selin (2014) reports that the pre-reform share of married women with positive earnings was 67% (Table 8) whereas the corresponding share in Bastani et al (2016) is 90%. 24 See Swedish Ministry of Finance (1989), supplement 4, p. 15. report how the government's relative valuation of working and non-working individuals has changed over time.…”

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Political preferences for redistribution in Sweden

Bastani

Lundberg

2017

J Econ Inequal

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We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy during 1971-2012 using the inverse optimal tax approach. The income distribution is carefully characterized with the help of administrative register data, and we employ behavioral elasticities reflecting the perceived distortionary effects of taxation. The revealed social welfare weights are high for non-workers, small for low-income earners, and hump-shaped around the median. At the top, they are always negative, especially so during the high-tax years of the 1970s and '80s. The weights on non-workers increased sharply in the 1970s, fell drastically in the late '80s and early '90s, and have since then increased.

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“…The introduction of the individual tax system in 1971, whereby taxation of spouses was individualized, also created big incentives for women to participate in the labour force. Selin (2014) concluded that the labour supply of females increased by 10 percentage points because of this reform.…”

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Practical Causal Analysis for the Treatment Timing Effect on Doubly Censored Duration: Effect of Fertility on Work Span

Angelov¹,

Johansson

Lee

2019

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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Summary We present a practical causal framework to estimate the effects of a treatment and its timing on a doubly censored response. We then apply the methodology to find the effect of fertility on work duration where, not just fertility itself, but the timing of fertility should matter greatly. Since fertility and its decision of timing are chosen by the individual, it is likely to be endogenous. We use a populationwide data set over mothers with two children to address the endogeneity issue by using the first two children's same‐sex instrument in a ‘control function’ setting. We find that having a third child reduces the average labour market work duration, and that the magnitude of the effect increases monotonically with the waiting time between the second and third children. Moreover, the negative effect varies substantially over education and second‐birth age, being stronger for mothers with higher education and lower second‐birth age.

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The rise in female employment and the role of tax incentives. An empirical analysis of the Swedish individual tax reform of 1971

Cited by 52 publications

References 23 publications

The Anatomy of the Extensive Margin Labor Supply Response*

The Anatomy of the Extensive Margin Labor Supply Response*

Political preferences for redistribution in Sweden

Practical Causal Analysis for the Treatment Timing Effect on Doubly Censored Duration: Effect of Fertility on Work Span

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