We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio …-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The … regressors include regional wage rates, household income and several control variables for household composition. We find that …

jobs are investigated, using a panel sample (1991-2005) of UK employees from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). A …

As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working …

This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low …-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate a discrete choice model of household labor supply. On … different policies raising low labor earnings at the individual and household levels. In all cases, the labor supply effect is …

In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly … increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes, which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between …

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly … increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these …

poverty experience on future poverty status, future employment status and household composition. The empirical results suggest … behaviour and on household cohesion. Apart from its economic significance, the existence of such feedback effects is interesting …

We assess the labour supply effects of two 'making work pay' reforms in Germany. We provide evidence in favour of …

native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such … size of the household services sector and to an increase in the labor supply of women in high-earning occupations (of about …, to stay in the workforce longer when having elderly dependents in the household, and to postpone retirement …