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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the "Right" Indicator

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...

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Household Taxation, Income Splitting and Labor Supply Incentives : A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Wrohlich, Katharina; Steiner, Viktor - 2004

We analyze potential labor supply effects of a shift from the current German system of joint taxation of married couples to a system of limited real income splitting on the basis of an econometric household labor supply model embedded in a tax-benefit model. Our simulation results show...

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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

Der im Ausland geborene Teil der in Deutschland lebenden Bevölkerung besteht aus Ausländern und Aussiedlern, die aus … osteuropäischen Ländern nach Deutschland emigriert sind. Während die erste Gruppe mit Problemen konfrontiert ist, die aus dem typisch … deutschen Pass. Etwa die Hälfte der Immigranten, die seit 1984 nach Deutschland kamen, sind der Gruppe der Aussiedler …

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Why Are Mothers Working Longer Hours in Austria than in Germany? A Comparative Micro Simulation Analysis

Dearing, Helene; Hofer, Helmut; Lietz, Christine; … - 2007

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these differences can be attributed to differences in the tax transfersystem, we perform a comparative...

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Ganztagsschulen und Erwerbsbeteiligung von Müttern: Eine Mikrosimulationsstudie für Deutschland

Beblo, Miriam; Lauer, Charlotte; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2005

Der Ausbau von Ganztagsschulen genießt derzeit – u.a. auf Grund des schlechten Abschneidens deutscher Schüler bei der PISA-Studie – hohe Priorität in der politischen Agenda. In diesem Beitrag soll untersucht werden, wie sich der Ausbau von Ganztagsschulen auf die Erwerbsbeteiligung von...

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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Wrohlich, Katharina - 2006

In this paper, I suggest an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...

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The Excess Demand for Subsidized Child Care in Germany

Wrohlich, Katharina - 2005

The extension of subsidized child care is currently on top of the political agenda in Germany. In this paper the excess demand for subsidized child care slots is estimated using a partial observability model in the style of Abowd and Farber (1982). The results show that more than 50 percent of...

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The Immigrant Welfare Effect: Take-Up or Eligibility?

Bird, Edward J.; Kayser, Hilke; Frick, Joachim R.; … - 1999

Are immigrants on welfare because they are more likely to be eligible or because they are more likely to claim benefits for which they are eligible? The answer is politically important, but because most current research on immigration and welfare is based on data from the U.S., the answer is...

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Labor supply and child care choices in a rationed child care market

Wrohlich, Katharina - 2006

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Why are mothers working longer hours in Austria than in Germany? A comparative micro simulation analysis

Dearing, Helene; Hofer, Helmut; Lietz, Christine; … - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268297