Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107458 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8675
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
household work
outsourcing
female labor supply
JEL: 
H2
J13
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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