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Fertility, female labor supply and public policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001
female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the heterogeneity among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405699
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Gender bias in tax systems based on household income
Andrienko, Jurij; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441692
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Labor supply heterogeneity and demand for child care of mothers with young children
Apps, Patricia; Kabatek, Jan; Rees, Ray; Soest, Arthur van - 2012
This paper introduces a static structural model of hours of market labor supply, time spent on child care and other domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior is taken as given. The main goal is to analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665422
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Alternatives to paying child benefit to the rich : means testing or higher tax?
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray; Thoresen, Thor Olav; Vattø, … - 2020
Transferring public benefits to people in no need of them appears to be a waste of public money. Thus, there seems to be support for a move away from universal child benefits and towards means testing. This study presents a critique of this overly-simplistic view and proposes a very simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240449
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Alternatives to paying child benefit to the rich : means testing or higher tax?
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray; Thoresen, Thor Olav; Vattø, … - 2021
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 implies that the US is effectively moving towards a general child benefit. However, the amount paid out is dependent on income, similar to schemes in several other countries. In the present paper, we argue that instead of suppressing the labour supply of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800676
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Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Public Policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001
female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the heterogeneity among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262610
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Labor supply heterogeneity and demand for child care of mothers with young children
Apps, Patricia; Kabatek, Jan; Rees, Ray; van Soest, Arthur - 2012
This paper introduces a static structural model of hours of market labor supply, time spent on child care and other domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior is taken as given. The main goal is to analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289925
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Household models: an historical perspective
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2007
This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature's neglect of Samuelson's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264270
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Alternatives to Paying Child Benefit to the Rich: Means Testing or Higher Tax?
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray; Thoresen, Thor Olav; Vattø, … - 2020
Transferring public benefits to people in no need of them appears to be a waste of public money. Thus, there seems to be support for a move away from universal child benefits and towards means testing. This study presents a critique of this overly-simplistic view and proposes a very simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269475
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Alternatives to paying child benefit to the rich: Means testing or higher tax?
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray; Thoresen, Thor Olav; Vattø, … - 2021
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 implies that the US is effectively moving towards a general child benefit. However, the amount paid out is dependent on income, similar to schemes in several other countries. In the present paper, we argue that instead of suppressing the labour supply of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872997