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Managing Migration through Conflicting Policies: an Option-theory Perspective
Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - CESifo - 2009
Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), trying to limit the immigrants’ stock. On the other hand, there is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029259
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Migration and Climate Change in Rural Africa
Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - CESifo - 2015
We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185619
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948876
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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - CESifo - 2012
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 informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540257
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Not All Incentives Wash Out the Warm Glow: The Case of Blood Donation Revisited
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Yen, Steven T. - CESifo - 2011
The issue of the nature of the altruism inherent in blood donation and the perverse effects of financial rewards for blood and/or organ donation has been recently revisited in the economic literature with limited consensus. As Titmuss (1970) famously pointed out, providing monetary incentives to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009221554
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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - CESifo - 2012
This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645655
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Mixing Bismarck and Child Pension Systems:An Optimum Taxation Approach
Fenge, Robert; Weizsäcker, Jakob von - CESifo - 2006
of the two: if and only if children are more complementary to leisure should the taxbenefit link be given a positive … may justify redistribution from families with children to those without implied by most pension systems. We find that the … opposite redistribution, from the childless to those with children, would be efficient if individuals have low risk aversion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765728
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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 … displays both a benefit contingent on the contributions of children and a purely fertility-related component. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766193
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Increasing Longevity and Social Security Reforms
Andersen, Torben - CESifo - 2006
Increasing longevity causes an upward trend in the dependency ratio in many countries. This raises concerns about the financial sustainability of social security schemes, and reform initiatives and proposals abound. It is shown that a fundamental policy choice inevitably arises since a given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094323
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Reducing the Excess Burden of Subsidizing the Stork: Joint Taxation, Individual Taxation, and Family Tax Splitting
Meier, Volker; Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2008
Analyzing a homogenous household setting with endogenous fertility and endogenous labor supply, we demonstrate that moving from joint taxation to individual taxation and adapting child benefits so as to keep fertility constant entails a Pareto improvement. The change is associated with an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181258