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A forgotten issue : distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339100
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A Forgotten Issue : Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany
Spiess, C. Katharina; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Wagner, Gert G. - 2021
In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321237
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A forgotten issue : distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433776
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Early child care and child outcomes : the role of grandparents
Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, … - 2014
In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419071
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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299373
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The unification bonus (malus) in postwall Eastern Germany
Beblo, Miriam; Collier, Irwin L.; Knaus, Thomas - 2001
This paper presents estimates of the unification bonus for East Germans over the period 1991 to 1998. The unification bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person?s actual income and his or her counterfactual real income stream forecast for a hypothetical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297766
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Compiling a harmonized database from Germany's 1978 to 2003 sample surveys of income and expenditure
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten; Werdt, Clive - 2010
We outline a procedure for combining six cross-sections of the German Sample Survey of Income and Expenditure, and discuss potential pitfalls of such a venture. Particularly, we investigate the consequences of a major break in the survey design for inter-temporal comparisons of expenditure...
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A 2004 Social Accounting Matrix for Israel: Documentation of an Economy-Wide Database with a Focus on Agriculture, the Labour Market, and Income Distribution
Siddig, Khalid Hassan Ali; Flaig, Dorothee; Luckmann, … - 2011
This document describes the Israeli Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for the year 2004, developed by the Agricultural and Food Policy Group at the University of Hohenheim. The SAM is a part of a larger research project which aims to analyse several economic, trade, and labour policies in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375028
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Can we steer income comparison attitudes by information provision? Evidence from randomized survey experiments in the US and the UK
Shigeoka, Hitoshi; Yamada, Katsunori - 2015
Economists have long been concerned that negative attitudes about relative income reduce social welfare. This paper investigates whether such attitudes can be mitigated by a simple information treatment. Toward this end, we conducted an original randomized online survey experiment in the US and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421475
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How do households allocate their assets? Stylised facts from the Eurosystem household finance and consumption survey
Arrondel, Luc; Bartiloro, Laura; Fessler, Pirmin; … - 2014
Using the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), a large micro-level dataset on households’ balance sheets in 15 euro area countries, this paper explores how households allocate their assets. We derive stylised facts on asset participation as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605767