This paper exploits exogenous variation in the price of child care stemming from a major child care price reform, to estimate the effects of child care costs on parents’ labour supply. The reform introduced a cap on the price that local governments could charge parents, and lead to...

This study assesses the impact of changes in the parental leave income replacement rate on job continuity of new mothers' after childbearing. The Japanese government increased the parental leave income replacement rate from 0% to 25% in 1995 and from 25% to 40% in 2001, creating two natural...

Abschluss der ifo Jahresversammlung 2006 war eine hochrangig besetzten Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema "Jobs für Deutschland". Diskussionsteilnehmer waren - neben Minister Huber und Prof. Sinn - Prof. Michael Burda, Ph.D., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Prof. Dr. Ingolf Deubel, Staatsminister der...