If participation in the labor market helps to secure women's outside options in
the case of divorce/separation, an increase in the perceived risk of marital dissolution
may accelerate the increase in female labor supply. ...
By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize
the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The
(marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach ...
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