Gender based taxation (GBT) has been recently proposed as a promising policy in order to improve women's status in the …'s proponents. However it is not an unquestionable success. GBT induces a modest increase of women's employment, but similar effects … among single women but for the whole population the best policies are subsidies on low wages, unconditional transfers or a …

.e. promote gender equality and improve women's status in the labour market and within the family. We use a microeconometric model …. GBT induces a modest increase of women's employment, but similar effects can be attained by universal subsidies on low … wages. When the policies are evaluated in terms of welfare, GBT ranks first among single women but among couples and in the …

In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study … single households. In the model, labor supply of married women reacts positively and relatively strongly to minimum wages … ambiguous reactions. An empirical analysis for Germany shows that minimum wages would affect total labor supply only weakly. Yet …

In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study … single households. In the model, labor supply of married women reacts positively and relatively strongly to minimum wages … ambiguous reactions. An empirical analysis for Germany shows that minimum wages would affect total labor supply only weakly. Yet …