Why Are Women Working So Much More in Canada? : An International Perspective /

This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit system in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tsounta, Evridiki
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/092
Online Access:Full text available on IMF