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Public Child Care and Mothers' Labor Supply - Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Schlotter, Martin - CESifo - 2013

Public child care is expected to assist families in reconciling work with family life. Yet, empirical evidence for the relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place in kindergarten in Germany, which was contingent...

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Daddy Months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children

Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - CESifo - 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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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara; … - CESifo - 2013

Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...

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Mixing Bismarck and Child Pension Systems:An Optimum Taxation Approach

Fenge, Robert; Weizsäcker, Jakob von - CESifo - 2006

The labor-leisure distortion of a pay-as-you-go pension system can be reduced through a stronger tax-benefit link or Bismarck pension system. Distortions of the fertility decision can be reduced through the introduction of a stronger child-benefit or child pension system.Within our optimal...

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Pension, Fertility, and Education

Meier, Volker; Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2005

A pay-as-you-go pension scheme is associated with positive externalities of having children and providing them with human capital. In a framework with heterogeneity in productivity, and stochastic and endogenous investment in fertility and education, we discuss internalization policies...

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Are Family Allowances and Fertility-related pensions Siamese Twins?

Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - CESifo - 2004

This paper discusses alternative ways to deal with the positive externalities of having children in a pay-as-you-go pension system. Family allowances are compared to introducing a fertility-related component into the pension formula. In an endogenous labor supply setting, both instruments are...

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Pensions and Fertility: Back to the Roots - The Introduction of Bismarck's Pension Scheme and the European Fertility Decline

Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - CESifo - 2013

Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered as one of the causes. This paper is the first to provide detailed evidence based on historical data on the mechanism by which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our...

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The Employment of Mothers - Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany

Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2010

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences...

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Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Social Public Procurement Policy: The Case of the Swiss Apprenticeship Training System

Leiser, Mirjam Strupler; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2014

apprentices’ a preferential treatment. We estimate the effectiveness of this social procurement policy on a firm’s training … participation, training intensity, and training quality using information from a representative and large firm survey. The results … show that although the policy increases the number of training firms, the effect is limited in size, as only small firms …

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