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International family migration and the dual-earner model
Munk, Martin D.; Nikolka, Till; Poutvaara, Panu - 2017
Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples emigrating from Denmark self-select and sort into different destinations and whether couples pursue the dual-earner model, in which both partners work, when abroad. Female...
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Women's work, housework and childcare, before and during COVID-19
Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; Profeta, Paola; … - 2020
effect of COVID-19 on the working arrangements, housework and childcare of couples where both partners work. ties. According … more time on housework than before. The link between time devoted to childcare and working arrangements is more symmetric …
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Neither backlash nor convergence : dynamics of intracouple childcare division after the first Covid-19 lockdown and subsequent reopening in Germany
Boll, Christina; Müller, Dana; Schüller, Simone - 2021
period from June to August 2020, we investigate the opposing claims of widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare … couples’ childcare division and by considering the prepandemic division rather than providing merely snapshots during lockdown … months. Starting from a fairly "traditional" prepandemic childcare division, the lockdown stimulus was not nearly strong …
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Agency in family policy : a survey
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
Given that young children are under the control of their parents, if the government has an interest in either the welfare or the productivity of the former, it has no option but to act through the latter. Parents are, in the ordinary sense of the word, the government’s agents. They are agents...
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Parents under stress : evaluating emergency childcare policies during the first Covid-19 lockdown in Germany
Schüller, Simone; Steinberg, Hannah S. - 2021
parenting behavior? Can emergency childcare policies during a pandemic mitigate increases in parental stress and negative … parenting behavior? To answer these questions, this study leverages cross-state variation in emergency childcare eligibility …
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Modes of child care
Glomm, Gerhard; Meier, Volker - 2016
We model choices between caring for an infant at home or through some market provision of child care. Maternal labor supply necessitates child care purchased in the market. Households are distinguished along three dimensions: (i) Exogenous income, (ii) the wage rate of the primary care giver and...
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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....
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Optimal taxation and the household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2016
This paper analyses optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. It models the interaction between wage rates and variation in child care prices and productivities as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second...
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The effect of child care on family structure : theory and evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - 2012
This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home...
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On the optimality of joint taxation with household production
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - 2001
The existing literature suggests that the concern for economic efficiency calls for individual taxation of married couples with a higher rate on the primary earner. This paper reconsiders the choice of tax unit in the Becker model of household production, which includes previous analyses as...
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