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Why are mothers working longer hours in Austria than in Germany? : a comparative micro simulation analysis

Dearing, Helene; Hofer, Helmut; Lietz, Christine; … - 2007

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers’ employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of … joint taxation with income splitting for married couples, Austria taxes everyone individually, which leads to lower marginal …

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Why are mothers working longer hours in Austria than in Germany? : A comparative micro simulation analysis

Dearing, Helene; Hofer, Helmut; Lietz, Christine; … - 2007

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of … joint taxation with income splitting for married couples, Austria taxes everyone individually, which leads to lower marginal …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003599699

Making work pay : increasing labour supply of secondary earners in low income families with children

Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michał; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2015

In-work support through the tax-benefit system has proved to be an effective way of increasing labour supply of lone mothers and first earners in couples in a number of OECD countries. At the same time these instruments usually create negative employment incentives for secondary earners. This in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388330

Household taxation, income splitting and labor supply incentives : a microsimulation study for Germany

Steiner, Viktor (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Child care costs and mothers' labor supply : an empirical analysis for Germany

Wrohlich, Katharina (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev

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The excess demand for subsidized child care in Germany

Wrohlich, Katharina (contributor) - 2005

The extension of subsidized child care is currently on top of the political agenda in Germany. In this paper the excess …

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Work incentives and labor supply effects of the "Mini-Jobs Reform" in Germany

Steiner, Viktor (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

security contributions to people with low-earnings jobs) introduced in Germany in April 2003. The analysis is based on a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002203441

Do tuition fees affect the mobility of university applicants? : evidence from a natural experiment

Dwenger, Nadja; Storck, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009

Germany, we estimate the effect of tuition fees on the probability of applying for a university in the home state. We find a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003885093

Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? : evidence from a structural model

Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...

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Preferences for childcare policies : theory and evidence

Borck, Rainald (contributor); … - 2008

We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...

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