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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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. The "Mini-Job" reform in Germany -- introduced on April 1, 2003 -- can be seen in line with these policies, exempting …
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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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