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The Effects of Japanese Income Tax Provisions on Women’s Labour Force Participation

In: Women’s Work in the World Economy

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  • Aiko Shibatal

    (Tezukayama University)

Abstract

At a session of the Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance in Istanbul in the summer of 1988, a gentleman from a small oil-producing country in the Middle East asked me: ‘Was there any effective governmental means of keeping wives at home?’ I was taken by surprise and didn’t know how to respond. However, I later realised that Japanese tax laws implicitly do just that. Designed to give a tax break to married taxpayers, they discourage housewives from taking jobs. Further, many private companies have adopted wage structures that also discourage housewives from working out-side their homes.

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  • Aiko Shibatal, 1992. "The Effects of Japanese Income Tax Provisions on Women’s Labour Force Participation," International Economic Association Series, in: Nancy Folbre & Barbara Bergmann & Bina Agarwal & Maria Floro (ed.), Women’s Work in the World Economy, chapter 9, pages 169-179, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-13188-4_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13188-4_9
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