Behavioural Microsimulation and Female Labour Supply in Luxembourg

In this study, the females’ labour supply is modelled as a discrete choice problem assuming that preference for leisure and consumption can be described by a quadratic utility function which allows for non-convexities in the budget set. As far as we know, such a model has never been developed in Luxembourg. We assess females’ behavioural responses to the significant changes in the tax-benefit system during 2001-2002 in Luxembourg. Only moderate impact is found, on average, on the efficiency of the economy as measured by the labour supply effects. The impact is indeed concentrated on richer sin... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Berger, Frédéric
Islam, Nizamul
Liégeois, Philippe
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Schlagwörter: Economie / Single Equation Models / Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models / C25 / Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies / includes inheritance and gift taxes / H24 / Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household / H31 / Time Allocation and Labor Supply / J22 / Labour Supply / Discrete choice / Households / Microsimulation / Tax reform
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26743551
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Link(s) : http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/122845

In this study, the females’ labour supply is modelled as a discrete choice problem assuming that preference for leisure and consumption can be described by a quadratic utility function which allows for non-convexities in the budget set. As far as we know, such a model has never been developed in Luxembourg. We assess females’ behavioural responses to the significant changes in the tax-benefit system during 2001-2002 in Luxembourg. Only moderate impact is found, on average, on the efficiency of the economy as measured by the labour supply effects. The impact is indeed concentrated on richer single women. These increase significantly their labour force which more than doubles the non-behavioural effect of the tax reform on disposable income and boosts the gains in well-being for that part of population. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published