Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,007
Cover Image
Erwerbsverhalten und Familienpolitik in der Schweiz
Stebler, Sabine - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001607323
Cover Image
Two steps forward : one step back? ; evaluating recent child care policies in Germany ; conference paper
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - This version: March 1st 2014, Preliminary and incomplete
In August 2013, two child care reforms have come into effect at the same time: First, a legal claim to formal child care has been introduced for all children aged one year or older. Second, a new benefit called Betreuungsgeld has been introduced that is granted to families who do not use public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486037
Cover Image
Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230973
Cover Image
Child care reforms and labor participation of migrant and native mothers
Fendel, Tanja; Jochimsen, Beate - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2017
öffentlicher Kinderbetreuung zu steigern. Ob die letzten Kinderbetreuungsreformen von 2013 in dieser Hinsicht erfolgreich sind, ist … keine öffentliche Kinderbetreuung nutzen, negative Effekte zu erwarten sind, sollte der seit 2013 geltende Rechtsanspruch … auf öffentliche Betreuung für Kinder des gleichen Alters zu einem Anstieg der Nutzung öffentlicher Kinderbetreuung führen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630743
Cover Image
An up-to-date joint labor supply and child care choice model
Thoresen, Thor Olav; Vattø, Trine Engh - 2017
Norwegian parents of preschool children make their care choices from a completely different choice set compared to what their predecessor did, say, two decades ago. Now, there is essentially only one type of nonparental care, center-based care, and at the parental side fathers take a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721562
Cover Image
Modes of child care
Glomm, Gerhard; Meier, Volker - 2016
We model choices between caring for an infant at home or through some market provision of child care. Maternal labor supply necessitates child care purchased in the market. Households are distinguished along three dimensions: (i) Exogenous income, (ii) the wage rate of the primary care giver and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587881
Cover Image
Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024392
Cover Image
Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce child poverty : an adequate strategy?
Hufkens, Tine; Figari, Francesco; Vandelannoote, Dieter; … - 2019
Expanding childcare is often considered as a suitable way to enhance employment opportunities of mothers with young children as well as to reduce child poverty. In this study the authors critically investigate this assertion by simulating a set of scenarios of increasing subsidized childcare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994659
Cover Image
Two steps forward - one step back? : evaluating contradicting child care policies in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 62 (2016) 4, pp. 672-698
We apply a structural model of mothers’ labor supply and child care choices to evaluate the effects of two child care reforms in Germany that were introduced simultaneously. A legal claim to subsidized child care became effective for children aged 1 year or older. Moreover, a new child care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711008
Cover Image
Financial support for families with children and its trade-offs : balancing redistribution and parental work incentives
Myck, Michał; Kurowska, Anna; Kundera, Michał - 2013
Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In the end these trade-offs determine the effectiveness of policy with respect to the material situation of families and employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774304