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Taxing childcare : effects on childcare choices, family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Saß, Björn - 2017
Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and childcare attendance to childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that raises the price of public daycare. After the reform, children are 8 percentage points less likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664517
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Does society influence the gender gap in risk attitudes? : evidence from East and West Germany
Chadi, Cornelia; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019
attitudes among East and West Germans. Originated from different family policies during Germany's separation, East Germans have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974389
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The effects of maternity leave extension on training for young women
Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor);  … - 2008
Using three representative individual-level datasets for West Germany, we estimate the effect of the extension of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777815
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Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf : wie konsistent sind die Reformen?
Eichhorst, Werner; Thode, Eric - 2009
Erwerbstätigkeit und Familiengründung zu einer echten Entweder-oder-Entscheidung. In Deutschland und vielen anderen OECD-Ländern wurden … Jahre kohärent ausgestaltet waren und die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf verbessert haben. Beim Blick auf Deutschland … dem zum Teil entgegen. Insgesamt befindet sich Deutschland in einer durchaus widersprüchlichen Übergangssituation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879329
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904913
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003599699
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Short-run and long-term effects of childbirth on mothers' employment and working hours across institutional regimes : an empirical analysis based on the European Community Househol...
Geyer, Johannes (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007
Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct 'institutional regimes', we estimate the short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003540700
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Taxing childcare : effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Saß, Björn - 2012
supply ; cognitive skills ; family policy ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534971
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Work and wage dynamics around childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 2011
data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516893
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The multigenerational impact of children and childcare policies
Karademir, Sencer; Laliberté, Jean-William; Staubli, Stefan - 2023
The disproportionate impact of children on women's earnings constitutes the primary factor contributing to persistent gender inequality in many countries. This paper examines the multigenerational impact of children and whether the public provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500676