Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply in the U.S. vs. Europe

Indraneel Chakraborty, Hans A. Holter, S. Stepanchuk
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Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro-data from the United States and 17 European countries, we document that women are typically the largest contributors to the cross-country differences in work hours. We also show that there is a negative relation between taxes and annual hours worked, driven by men, and a positive relation between divorce rates and annual hours worked, driven by women. In a calibrated life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents, marriage and divorce, we find that the divorce and tax mechanisms together can explain 45% of the variation in labor supply between the United States and the European countries.
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美国与欧洲的婚姻稳定、税收和总劳动力供给
美国人比欧洲人工作得多。通过使用来自美国和17个欧洲国家的微观数据,我们发现女性通常是造成跨国工作时间差异的最大因素。我们还表明,在男性的推动下,税收与年工作时间之间存在负相关,而在女性的推动下,离婚率与年工作时间之间存在正相关。在一个包含异质因素(婚姻和离婚)的校准生命周期模型中,我们发现离婚和税收机制共同可以解释美国和欧洲国家之间45%的劳动力供给差异。
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