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Can parents afford to work? Childcare costs, tax-benefit policies and work incentives
Immervoll, Herwig; Barber, David - 2006
Childcare policies play a crucial role in helping parents reconcile care and employment-related tasks. This paper … cash benefits available to parents. Building on these calculations, family resources are evaluated for different employment … the policy features that present barriers to work for parents whose employment decisions are known to be particularly …
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Italian Families in the 21st Century: Gender Gaps in Time Use and Their Evolution
Barigozzi, Francesca; Di Timoteo, Cesare; Monfardini, Chiara - 2020
We estimate gender gaps in the allocation of time by Italian adults and their trends over the years 2002-2014. We disentangle time use in weekdays and weekend days and analyse separately full-time working parents with young children, representing the subsample more mindful of gender parity. In...
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Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income
Andrienko, Yuri; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
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Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income
Andrienko, Yuri; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095500
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Labor supply and child care choices in a rationed child care market
Wrohlich, Katharina - 2006
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. …
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Taxing childcare: Effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2012
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
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Cheaper child care, more children
Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2009
We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous variation in child care costs caused by a Swedish child care...
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Unintended consequences of welfare reform: the case of divorced parents
Francesconi, Marco; Rainer, Helmut; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2008
This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support payment to transfer to custodians. These, in turn, decide...
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The cost of caring for young children
Rosenbaum, Dan T.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2005
This study examines the cost burden of child care, defined as day care expenses divided by after-tax income. Data are from the wave 10 core and child care topical modules to the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation. We estimate that the average child under six years of age lives in a...
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The effects of female labor force participation on obesity
Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Peralta-Alva, … - 2011
This paper assesses whether a causal relationship exists between recent increases in female labor force participation and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s and 1990s have been established by prior literature as...
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