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Title: Taxes, Social Subsidies and the Allocation of Work Time

Author(s): Liwa Rachel Ngai and Christopher Pissarides

Publication Date: April 2011

Keyword(s): allocation of time, home production, multisector model, social subsidies and tax wedge

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: We examine the allocation of hours of work across industrial sectors in OECD countries. We find large disparities across three sector groups, one that produces goods without home substitutes, and two others that have home substitutes but treated differently by welfare policy. We attribute the disparities to the countries' tax and subsidy policies. High taxation substantially reduces hours in sectors that have close home substitutes but less so in other sectors. Subsidies increase hours in the subsidized sectors that have home substitutes. We compute these policy effects for nineteen OECD countries.

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Ngai, L and Pissarides, C. 2011. 'Taxes, Social Subsidies and the Allocation of Work Time'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=8328