[Introduction ...] In Brazil, growth in domestic workers’ income has been above the average growth rate of the economy, while, at the same time, the number of hired workers has changed very little, indicating that demand has remained high enough that no jobs were lost in the labour market. In...

Der Bedarf privater Haushalte an Hilfe bei Haushaltsführung, Kinderbetreuung und der Pflege von Angehörigen steigt. Er wird in Deutschland überwiegend durch irreguläre Arbeit gedeckt. Die Studie zeigt, dass institutionelle und rechtliche Regulierungen diese Konstellation für beide Seiten,...

Private households' demand for support in housekeeping, childcare and care of elderly is increasing. In Germany, it is met mainly by undocumented work. The report shows that this constellation is eased by legal and institutional regulations: Social as well as tax legislation promote a "marginal...

Der Ausbau von haushaltsnahen Dienstleistungen kann zum einen als arbeitsmarktpolitisches Instrument etwa zum Abbau der Arbeitslosigkeit angesehen werden. Zum anderen sind haushaltsnahe Dienstleistungen ein Instrument zur besseren Vereinbarkeit von Kindererziehung und Beruf sowie zur...

Familienunterstützende Dienstleistungen können dazu beitragen, die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf, Familie und Hausarbeit zu verbessern. Die vorliegende Analyse zeichnet ein genaues Profil des deutschen Marktes und deckt die Anreizstrukturen auf, die zum großen Umfang an Schwarzarbeit bei...

This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such as housekeeping and child or elderly care. As a result,...

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...

Our paper examines the impact of tax reductions on the demand for services in the home. For that purpose, we estimate a structural model of demand for such services by using household individual data collected by INSEE (Paris) in 1996. In this model, the net hourly wage paid to the domestic...

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...