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Modes of child care
Glomm, Gerhard; Meier, Volker - 2016
taken account of by parents. Optimal corrective subsidies are highly correlated with taxed paid by secondary earners. In a …
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Parental allowance increase and labor supply : evidence from a Czech reform
Grossmann, Jakub; Pertold, Filip; Šoltés, Michal - 2023
labor supply of parents in the Czech Republic. Drawing a parental allowance does not preclude labor market activity, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251332
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Quantifying Okun’s leaky bucket : the case of progressive childcare subsidies
Koll, David; Sachs, Dominik; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian; … - 2024
We formalize and estimate the dynamic marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) in the spirit of Okun’s “leaky bucket” to compare the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and of the income-contingent tax and transfer schedule. We set up a dynamic structural model...
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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024392
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Equity and efficiency of childcare subsidies : a dynamic structural approach
Koll, David; Sachs, Dominik; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian; … - 2023
We formalize and estimate the dynamic marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) in the spirit of Okun’s “leaky bucket”. We analyze the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and the income tax within the German context, using a dynamic structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435203
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Taxing childcare : effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Saß, Björn - 2012 - This version: March, 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/10009518242
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Taxation and parental time allocation under different assumptions on altruism
Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2014
In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256101
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To work or not to work? : the effect of child-care subsidies on the labour supply of parents
Kosonen, Tuomas - 2013
the labour force participation of parents. The variation in labour supply incentives is plausibly exogenous, since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690746
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Trapped at home : the effect of mothers' temporary labor market exits on their subsequent work career
Drange, Nina; Rege, Mari - 2012
This paper investigates how mothers' decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers' incentives to withdraw from the labor market when their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009540764
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After-school care and parents' labor supply
Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Thiemann, Petra - 2013 - This version: November 2013
Does after-school care provision promote mothers ́employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211451