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The Impact of Tax Reform in Japan on the Work-Hour and Income Distributions of Married Women

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  • YOKOYAMA, Izumi & 横山, 泉, 2015. "The Impact of Tax Reform in Japan on the Work-Hour and Income Distributions of Married Women," Discussion Papers 2015-02, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University.
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    Keywords

    Female labor supply; Income distribution; Spousal exemption; Tax reform; Di-Nardo; Fortin; and Lemieux decomposition; RIF regressions; Unconditional Quantile Regressions; Firpo; Fortin; and Lemieux decomposition;
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    JEL classification:

    • J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
    • H24 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies

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