CONTENTS: List Of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1 Labor Taxes And Hours Of Work: Some Theory The Textbook Model of Labor Supply A Diagrammatic Representation of the Consumption-Leisure Trade-Off Income and Substitution Effects Analyzing Tax Policy The Social Cost of Higher Taxes The Laffer Curve Additional Tax Instruments Additional Spending Policies Summary 2 Labor Taxes And Hours Of Work: Where To Look For Evidence? How Do We Know What We Think We Know? Experimental Data from the Economy Summary 3 Taxes, Government Spending, And Hours Of Work In The United States U.S. Tax Rates on Labor Properties of Government Spending in the United States Hours of Work in the United States Summary 4 What We Learn From The U.S. Experience The Missing Factor Home Production and Labor Supply Changes in Home and Market Work Reassessing the Relationship between Labor Taxes and Market Work Summary 5 What We Learn From The Experience Of Other Countries More...