This paper analyzes the question why desired and actual sharing of market work and family duties among parents with young children in Germany fall apart. Potential explanations include financial incentives favoring the single-earner model, as well as constraints in choosing working hours due to...

Complementary to microsimulation studies focusing on the impact of labor supply as a choice of hours worked we shed light on another variable that survey data are not capable of taking into account: the choice of work effort. Our aim is to investigate the effect of individual and joint taxation...

Im Forschungsbericht werden die Ergebnisse eines Kolloquiums vorgestellt. Inhalt: Teil 1. (Steiner, Christine: Bildungs- und Berufswahlverhalten von Jugendlichen und Jungerwachsenen in Ostdeutschland. - Grünert, Holle: Was wissen wir über das Beschäftigerverhalten in Ostdeutschland? - Lutz,...

Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe highlights recent developments in the labour supply in Europe and gives a detailed assessment of their link with economic policies and labour market institutions. Despite major changes in European labour supply during the past few decades, the...

The group of contributors in this book come from academia and international organizations in Europe and the USA. They focus on trade unions, which affect real-wage flexibility and the provision of training to workers. They also concentrate on employment protection legislation, which discourages...