Increasing mothers’ labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...

Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...

Dem Ehegattensplitting wird allgemein unterstellt, dass es der Förderung von Ehe und Familie diene. Diese Sicht folgt aus der Tatsache, dass es nach einer Verfassungsbeschwerde gemäß Artikel 6 GG eingeführt wurde, der neben dem Förderungsaspekt allerdings auch einen...

This paper introduces a static structural model of hours of market labor supply, time spent on child care and other domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior is taken as given. The main goal is to analyze the...

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...

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...

Recent work has provided compelling evidence of a long-term decline in US female labor supply elasticities with respect to wages and to income. While previous work used cross-sectional data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we reexamine the trend for married women using panel data from...

Personal taxes and benefits affect the incentive to work over the lifecycle by altering income-age profiles, insuring against adverse shocks, and changing the returns to human capital. Previous work investigating the impact of taxes and benefits on work incentives has tended to ignore these...

This paper introduces a static structural model of hours of market labor supply, time spent on child care and other domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior is taken as given. The main goal is to analyze the...

These articles debate the pros and cons of the full income-splitting tax procedure. Ernst Niemeier defends this taxation scheme, because in his opinion it is not aimed at furthering families or children but making sure that a couple does not have to pay more taxes than two singles. He argues...