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This paper provides an early analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform. Previous studies of child care subsidies use data from the pre-welfare-reform period, and their results may not apply to the very different post-reform environment. We use data from the 1997 National Survey of...
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positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female …
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Social transfers vary enormously across the EU, as has been demonstrated in earlier research. This paper analyses the comparative effects of cash transfers on inequality and poverty, using consistent household data. The analysis shows that the distributional impact of these transfers is greater...
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This paper tests the predictive value of subjective labour supply data for adjustments in working hours over time. The idea is that if subjective labour supply data help to predict next year's working hours, such data must contain at least some information on individual labour supply...
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simultaneously explains participation, employment and wages. The model, estimated for East and West Germany on the basis of the …
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Using a large new dataset, we analyze the labor market performance of Portuguese workers in Germany. While previous …
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