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Preferences for Childcare Policies : Theory and Evidence
Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324977
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Optimal Taxation : The Design of Child Related Cash- and In - Kind - Benefits
Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2021
This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax - transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current German tax and transfer system for single women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316748
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Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model
Haan, Peter - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155158
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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; … - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316983
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Making Work Pay : Increasing Labour Supply of Secondary Earners in Low Income Families with Children
Kurowska, Anna - 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/10013011178
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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; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068654
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Two Steps Forward - One Step Back?: Evaluating Contradicting Child Care Policies in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
reforms in Germany that were introduced simultaneously in August 2013. First, a legal claim to subsidized child care became …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128844
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Do Tuition Fees Affect the Mobility of University Applicants? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Dwenger, Nadja - 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/10013155573
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The Parental Leave Benefit Reform in Germany : Costs and Labour Market Outcomes of Moving Towards the Scandinavian Model
Spiess, C. Katharina - 2006
Germany is known to have one of the lowest fertility rates among Western European countries and also relatively low … Germany we calculate first-round effects, which assume no behavioural changes and second-round effects, where we take labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779181
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Income Taxation and Household Size : Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off?
baclet, alexandre - 2006
in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France …
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