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Household Income Distribution and Hours of Work: An International Comparison

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  • Lennart Flood
  • Dominique Anxo

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The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to analyze the relationship between the distribution of household income and the distribution of working time in six European countries and in the United States. The second objective is to assess how the tax and transfer systems affect the gender allocation of working time within married or cohabitant households. This paper is structured in the following manner. Section 2 briefly describes the data set used (Luxembourg Income Study database) and the definition of the population and variables retained in this study. Section 3 describes the main features of income distribution, earnings inequality and household working time patterns in the selected countries. Section 4 tries to assess the impact of national tax and transfer systems on the net earnings return for various household working time patterns. In particular, we provide some preliminary estimates on the marginal effect of an increase of wifes working hours on households net disposable income.

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  • Lennart Flood & Dominique Anxo, 1999. "Household Income Distribution and Hours of Work: An International Comparison," LIS Working papers 207, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
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    1. Dennis Sullivan & Timothy Smeeding, 1997. "Educational Attainment and Earnings Inequality in Eight Nations," LIS Working papers 164, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
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    1. Morgan Richards-Melamdir, 2021. "Can Progressive Taxation Address Gender Inequality in Income? Cross-National Evidence of Gender Differences in Income Tax Payment Patterns and Post-Tax Income," LIS Working papers 816, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.

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