TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Halldén, Karin
AU  - Stenberg, Anders
        TI  - The Relationship between Hours of Domestic Services and Female Earnings: Panel Register Data Evidence from a Reform
        PY  - 2014/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8675
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8675
        AB  - In 2007, a tax discount reform in Sweden reduced prices of outsourced domestic services (ODS) by 50 percent. Unlike most previous studies, population register data enable us to directly link a proxy for relaxed time constraints, annual changes in households' tax discounts, to changes in earnings. We find that 60 percent of married women's freed hours are applied to labor market work, which tapers off when ODS corresponds to approximately three weeks of full time work. This is substantially higher than previously reported estimates. A causal interpretation is supported by "placebo tests", and we carefully outline the assumptions required.
        KW  - outsourcing
KW  - female labor supply
KW  - household work
        ER  -