TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bosch, Nicole
AU  - Klaauw, Bas van der
        TI  - Analyzing Female Labor Supply: Evidence from a Dutch Tax Reform
        PY  - 2009/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4238
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4238
        AB  - Among OECD countries, the Netherlands has average female labor force participation, but by far the highest rate of part-time work. This paper investigates the extent to which married women respond to financial incentives. We exploit the exogenous variation caused by a substantial Dutch tax reform in 2001. Our main conclusion is that the positive significant effect of tax reform on labor force participation dominates the negative insignificant effect on working hours. Our preferred explanation is that women respond more to changes in tax allowances than to changes in marginal tax rates.
        KW  - uncompensated wage elasticity
KW  - labor force participation
KW  - working hours
KW  - endogeneity
        ER  -