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The joint decision of female labour supply and childcare in Italy under costs and availability constraints

Figari, Francesco; Narazani, Edlira - 2017

It is widely recognized that childcare has important pedagogical, economic and social effects on both children and … parents. This paper is the first attempt to estimate a joint structural model of female labour supply and childcare behaviour … applied to Italy in order to analyse the effects of relaxing the existing constraints in terms of childcare availability and …

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Will childcare subsidies increase the labour supply of mothers in Ireland?

Doorley, Karina; Tuda, Dora; Duggan, Luke - 2023

The cost of childcare has a significant impact on the decision of parents – particularly mothers – to work. Prior to … the introduction of subsidies for formal childcare in Ireland in 2019 through the National Childcare Scheme (NCS), the … cost of full-time centre-based childcare was among the most expensive in the OECD. In this paper, we investigate the …

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Piecemeal modelling of the effects of joint direct and indirect tax reforms

Capéau, Bart; Decoster, André; Maes, Sebastiaan; … - 2018

This paper offers a framework to establish a micro-based budget and welfare evaluation of a joint reform in personal income taxes, social security contributions and indirect taxes. One often lacks an encompassing model for both labour supply decisions in real world tax and benefit contexts and...

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Welfare analysis and redistributive policies

Bargain, Olivier - 2017

Applied welfare analyses of redistributive systems nowadays benefit from powerful tax benefit microsimulation programs combined with administrative data. Arguably, most of the distributional studies of that kind focus on social welfare defined as a function - typically inequality or poverty...

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Full childcare coverage : higher maternal labour supply and childcare usage?

Vanleenhove, Pieter - 2013

According to many studies, childcare is an important input for children’s development but it is also used to free up … time for parents to work. However, many households are still confronted with availability constraints in childcare. In the … recent past, many governments implemented policy reforms in order to increase the coverage rate of childcare. The empirical …

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The probability of poverty for mothers after childbirth and divorce in Europe : the role of social stratification and tax-benefit policies

Popova, Daria; Navickė, Jekaterina - 2019

This paper looks at the effects of tax-benefit systems and social stratification determinants on the probability of poverty among mothers after childbirth and divorce/separation. The analysis was carried out for twelve EU countries, which represent a variety of welfare regimes providing...

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To what extent do welfare states compensate for the cost of children? : a hypothetical household approach to policy evaluations

Penne, Tess; Hufkens, Tine; Goedemé, Tim; Storms, … - 2018

In order to alleviate child poverty, contemporary European welfare states have shifted their focus increasingly towards child-centred investment strategies. However, studies assessing the generosity of welfare states to families with children focus mainly on the role of cash benefit packages, or...

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Discrete choice modelling of labour supply in Luxembourg through EUROMOD microsimulation

Berger, Frédéric; Islam, Nizamul; Liégeois, Philippe - 2010

In this study, the household labour supply is modelled as a discrete choice problem assuming that preference for leisure and consumption can be described by a quadratic utility function which allows for non-convexities in the budget set. We assess behavioural responses to the significant changes...

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Automatic stabilisers and economic crisis : US vs Europe

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...

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Integrating indirect taxation into EUROMOD : documentation and results for Germany

Decoster, André; Ochmann, Richard R.; Spiritus, Kevin - 2013

This paper documents the integration of microsimulation tools for direct taxation, indirect taxation, and social benefits in the context of the European tax and benefit simulator, EUROMOD. Integration has been developed parallely for the two countries, Belgium and Germany. The paper at hand...

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