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...

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...

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...

Das Ehegattensplitting gilt als Besteuerungsprinzip, das der Förderung von Ehe und Familie dient. Ernst Niemeier ist der Auffassung, dass es vor allem die horizontale Steuergerechtigkeit wahren soll. Er setzt sich auch mit dem Diskussionsbeitrag eines Autorenteams des DIW auseinander, das...