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Public Economics and the Household - Softcover

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray

 
9780521716284: Public Economics and the Household
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521716284 ISBN 13: 9780521716284
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Economic models in much of the public economics literature have been slow to reflect the significant changes towards double-income households throughout the developed world. This graduate-level text develops a more sophisticated approach to household economics, one that allows for multiple-income earners and shared decision-making. This approach is used to present a fundamentally new view of consumption. It then applies this to an analysis of tax systems, combining theoretical analysis of optimal taxation and tax reform with careful empirical study of the characteristics of income tax systems in four different countries: Australia, Germany, the UK and the USA. The book is particularly concerned with analysing, both theoretically and empirically, the impact of taxation on female labour supply, and identifying its effects on work incentives and fairness of income distribution. All this adds up to a fascinating new approach to the economics of household for researchers in both public and private sectors.

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About the Authors

Patricia Apps is Professor of Public Economics at the University of Sydney.

Ray Rees is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521716284
ISBN 13 
9780521716284
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
302