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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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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 …

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The extent of collective bargaining and workplace representation : transitions between states and their determinants ; a comparative analysis of Germany and Great Britain

Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Teixeira, Paulino; … - 2009

Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said … representation in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …

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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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The parental leave benefit reform in Germany : costs and labour market outcomes of moving towards the Scandinavian model

Spieß, C. Katharina (contributor); … - 2006 - [Rev]

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 …

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Introducing family tax splitting in Germany : how would it affect the income distribution and work incentives?

Steiner, Viktor (contributor); … - 2006

We analyze the effects of three alternative proposals to reform the taxation of families relative to the current German system of joint taxation of couples and child allowances: a French-type family splitting and two full family splitting proposals. The empirical analysis of the effects of these...

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Labor supply and child care choices in a rationed child care market

Wrohlich, Katharina (contributor) - 2006

Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a … care ; labor supply ; discrete choice ; panel study ; Germany …

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Firms and early retirement : offers that one does not refuse

Bellmann, Lutz (contributor); Janik, Florian (contributor) - 2007

According to the Hutchens (1999) model, early retirement is not explained as a result of maximizing expected individual utility but rather as a demand-side phenomenon arising from a firm’s profit-maximizing behaviour. Firms enter into contracts with their employees that include clauses about...

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Recruitment and job applications of older jobseekers from the establishments' perspective

Bellmann, Lutz (contributor); Brussig, Martin (contributor) - 2007

In the demographic change, a prolongation of individual employment and thus of beginning a new employment in later stages of the work life is of growing importance. On the base of microeconomic data (establishment panel of the IAB), this paper analyses firms' characteristics correlating with...

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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 …

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