Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a … the demand for child care as well as on maternal employment than a reduction of parents' fees to existing slots. …

Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a … the demand for child care as well as on maternal employment than a reduction of parents' fees to existing slots. …

Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of …. Using administrative social security data, we confirm previous findings and show that the average duration of employment …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however fulltime employment rates are …, differences in mothers’ employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

The extension of subsidized child care is currently on top of the political agenda in Germany. In this paper the excess …

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 system which differs by employment state and number of children. To …

parental leave schemes. In this paper, we analyze whether the introduction of the fathers' quota in Germany in 2007, that …