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light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare …
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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. …
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The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State in matters of family policy has implied that programmes of public assistance to poor families with children are often meagre or not available at all. The paper examines the...
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As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working …
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We evaluate the effect of a 2003 reform in the Spanish income tax on fertility and the employment of mothers with small … children. The reform introduced a tax credit for working mothers with children under the age of three, while also increasing … effect of the reform is ambiguous on both outcomes. We find that the combined reforms significantly increased both fertility …
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We examine the second-best family policy under the assumption that both the number and the future earning capacities of the children born to a couple are random variables with probability distributions conditional on unobservable parental actions. Potential parents take their decisions without...
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The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns … most important type of training programs before and after the reform by using administrative data of the Federal Employment … training programs had a positive impact on employment prospects already before the reform. Results for the relative short …
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Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather … moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively …
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Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America?s Families), this paper …
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light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare …
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