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Taxing childcare: Effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2012
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
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Labor supply and child care choices in a rationed child care market
Wrohlich, Katharina - 2006
Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a …
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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? Evidence from a structural model
Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009
In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...
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The Excess Demand for Subsidized Child Care in Germany
Wrohlich, Katharina - 2005
The extension of subsidized child care is currently on top of the political agenda in Germany. In this paper the excess …
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Early child care and child development: For whom it works and why
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2012
Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...
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Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf: wie konsistent sind die Reformen?
Eichhorst, Werner; Thode, Eric - 2009
Erwerbstätigkeit und Familiengründung zu einer echten Entweder-oder-Entscheidung. In Deutschland und vielen anderen OECD-Ländern wurden … Jahre kohärent ausgestaltet waren und die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf verbessert haben. Beim Blick auf Deutschland … Kinderbetreuung voraus. Bei Transferbeziehern wird eine stärkere Aktivierung angestrebt, aber problematische Anreizstrukturen stehen …
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Unwilling or Unable? : Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access
van Ham, Maarten; Büchel, Felix - 2004
We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females? willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Results of a bivariate...
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In-Work Policies in Europe : Killing Two Birds with One Stone?
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian - 2004
three European countries which experience severe poverty traps, namely Finland, France and Germany. The potential labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262176
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Optimal taxation: the design of child related cash- and in-kind-benefits
Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2007
This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current German tax and transfer system for single women...
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Now daddy's changing diapers and mommy's making her career: evaluating a generous parental leave regulation using a natural experiment
Kluve, Jochen; Tamm, Marcus - 2009
Over the last decades many OECD countries introduced parental leave regulations in order to counteract low and decreasing birth rates. In general, these regulations aim at making parenthood more attractive and more compatible with a working career, especially for women. The recent German...
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