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market care subsidies vs. cash for care. Policies are determined by probabilistic voting, where allocative and distributional … likely to receive subsidies. In early stages of development where most households are traditional, implemented policies … favour them, though to a small extent. Net subsidies to traditional households are highest in some intermediate stage, which …
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taken account of by parents. Optimal corrective subsidies are highly correlated with taxed paid by secondary earners. In a …-use subsidies" mitigates such distortions and can also counter excessive levels of subsidies for external child care. …
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market care subsidies vs. cash for care. Policies are determined by probabilistic voting, where allocative and distributional … likely to receive subsidies. In early stages of development where most households are traditional, implemented policies … favour them, though to a small extent. Net subsidies to traditional households are highest in some intermediate stage, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024392
Diese Dissertation besteht aus drei Aufsätzen aus den Bereichen Arbeitsmarktökonomie, berufliche Vorsorge und Sozialpolitik, die sich mit den Auswirkungen öffentlicher Gesetzgebung und makroökonomischer Schocks auf individuelle Verhaltensweisen befassen. Der erste Aufsatz behandelt die...
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The share of single mothers is higher in East Germany than in West Germany. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we examine two transmission channels leading to single motherhood, namely out-of-partnership births and separations of couples with minor children. Women in East Germany...
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We investigate the importance of various mechanisms by which child care policies can affect life-cycle patterns of employment and fertility among women, as well as long-run cognitive outcomes among children. A structural life-cycle model of employment, fertility, and child care use is estimated...
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In 2007, seeking to increase female labor force participation and more generally ease burdens on working women, the Mexican government introduced an enormous expansion of a child care program: Estancias Infantiles para Apoyar a Madres Trabajadoras (EI). EI covers 90 percent approximately of the...
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In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...
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We use French household data to estimate a structural model of female labor supply and use of paid child care outside the home. Child care costs are found to have little impact on the labor market participation decision of mothers. The model is used to study various policy issues. The influence...
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