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In-work support through the tax-benefit system has proved to be an effective way of increasing labour supply of lone mothers and first earners in couples in a number of OECD countries. At the same time these instruments usually create negative employment incentives for secondary earners. This in...
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In this paper, we examine reforms that alleviate large employment disincentives induced by child-related transfers for married mothers. We develop a life-cycle model where married couples face labor market, child care and fertility risk, and make joint labor supply and consumption-saving...
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In Germany, inequality of net equivalized income increased noticeably in the first half of the new millennium. We aim …
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Nach den Ergebnissen des ersten Armuts- und Reichtumsberichts der Bundesregierung ist das Armutsrisiko von Kindern unter 18 Jahren wesentlich höher als das anderer Altersgruppen. Um die überdurchschnittliche hohe Sozialhilfequote von Kindern zu senken, regten Bündnis 90/Die Grünen im...
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This paper explores the problem of effective taxation at the lower end of the income scale in Germany. For the …
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Unser Steuer-, Abgaben- und Transfersystem ist gerade für Familien am unteren Ende der Einkommensskala nur bedingt leistungsgerecht. Es gilt daher, Steuern, Sozialabgaben und Transferleistungen so aufeinander abzustimmen, dass sich (zusätzliche) Erwerbsarbeit in jedem Fall lohnt.
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This paper evaluates two hypothetical budget-neutral reforms that shift resources from family tax expenditures to family cash transfers. We evaluate these reforms using a structural labor supply model based on the microsimulation EUROMOD model and EU-SILC data. We find that both reforms have an...
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