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In many European countries, men and women differ significantly in the amount of informal care work they provide for relatives, with women acting as caregivers far more frequently than men. This difference, known as the gender care gap, varies considerably between European countries, with Germany...
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Das Ehegattensplitting gilt als Besteuerungsprinzip, das der Förderung von Ehe und Familie dient. Ernst Niemeier ist der Auffassung, dass es vor allem die horizontale Steuergerechtigkeit wahren soll. Er setzt sich auch mit dem Diskussionsbeitrag eines Autorenteams des DIW auseinander, das...
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In many European countries, men and women differ significantly in the amount of informal care work they provide for relatives, with women acting as caregivers far more frequently than men. This difference, known as the gender care gap, varies considerably between European countries, with Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477333
Mehr als eine halbe Million ältere Menschen in Deutschland nehmen derzeit die Grundsicherung im Alter in Anspruch - mehr als doppelt so viele wie bei ihrer Einführung im Jahr 2003. Die Dunkelziffer derer, die Anspruch auf diese Leistung hätten, sie aber nicht geltend machen, kann nur...
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Mehr als eine halbe Million ältere Menschen in Deutschland nehmen derzeit die Grundsicherung im Alter in Anspruch - mehr als doppelt so viele wie bei ihrer Einführung im Jahr 2003. Die Dunkelziffer derer, die Anspruch auf diese Leistung hätten, sie aber nicht geltend machen, kann nur...
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scheme, the amount received is so low that people with reduced earning capacity are at very high risk of poverty and there is … potentially reduce the risk of poverty by around eight percent, there continues to be an above-average likelihood of people with … reduced earning capacity being affected by poverty. In addition, those affected have a low life expectancy, meaning that a …
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more targeted. To combat old-age poverty more effectively, the pension entitlements of those at risk should be targeted …
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This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Basedon the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometrictechniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current German tax and transfersystem for single women optimal...
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In this paper we develop a model to consistently estimate the intertemporal labor supplybehavior on the extensive margin (participation decision) and the intensive margin (workinghours decision). In this framework we distinguish between voluntary non-participation andinvoluntary unemployment...
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