Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82512 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2009:4
Publisher: 
Uppsala University, Department of Economics, Uppsala
Abstract: 
Sweden reached the 2007 OECD average level of female labor force participation already in 1974. Before, but not after, 1971 the average tax rate facing the housewife was a function of the income of her husband. By exploiting a rich register based data source I utilize the exogenous variation provided by the individual tax reform to analyze the evolution of female employment in Sweden in the beginning of the 1970's. Simulations suggest that employment among married women would have been 10 percentage points lower in 1975 if the 1969 statutory income tax system still had been in place in 1975.
Subjects: 
female labor supply
income tax reforms
JEL: 
J21
H24
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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