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Globalization, Gender and Development : The Effect of Parental Labor Supply on Child Schooling
Ural Marchand, Beyza P. - 2011
Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the relative bargaining power within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130100
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Public Child Care and Mothers' Labor Supply - Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082974
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Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions
Manoli, Day - 2014
This paper presents new evidence on the effects of retirement benefits on labor force participation decisions. The analysis is based on a mandated rule for employer-provided retirement benefits in Austria that creates discontinuities in the incentives for workers to delay retirement. We present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058493
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Beyond Ramsey : Gender-Based Taxation with Non-Cooperative Couples
Meier, Volker - 2012
This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non-cooperative model of a couple's time … by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative marginal rates of substitution between the public household good and … sharp contrast to previous models of gender-based taxation in which households select Pareto efficient allocations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098952
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Competition for Migrants in a Federation : Tax or Transfer Competition?
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2012
The paper provides an equilibrium analysis of how countries compete for migrants. The type of competition (tax or transfer competition) depends on whether the competing countries have similar policy preferences. With symmetric preferences, countries compete in taxes for migrants. With asymmetric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111835
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Should Local Public Employment Services Be Merged with the Local Social Benefit Administrations?
Holzner, Christian - 2011
The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124387
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On the Design of Education Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Non Education Outcomes : The Case of Teenage Pregnancy
Cortes, Darwin F.; Gallego, Juan Miguel; Maldonado, Dario - 2021
We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...
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Taxing Childcare : Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315925
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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits - The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021
We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316393
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Retirement, Pensions, and Ageing
Heijdra, Ben J.; Romp, Ward E. - 2021
We study the effects of demographic shocks and changes in the pension system on the macroeconomic performance of an advanced small open economy. An overlapping-generations model is constructed which includes a realistic description of the mortality process. Individual agents choose their optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317087