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Taxing childcare: Effects on family labor supply and children

Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2012

older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. …

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What makes single mothers expand or reduce employment?

Hancioglu, Mine; Hartmann, Bastian - 2012

To explore single mothers' labor market participation we analyze specific circumstances and dynamics in their life courses. We focus on the question which individual and institutional factors determine both professional advancement and professional descent. Due to dynamics in women's life course...

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Child care assistance: Are subsidies or tax credits better?

Gong, Xiaodong; Breunig, Robert - 2012

We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household … subsidies in terms of increasing average hours worked and household income. However, tax credits disproportionately benefit …

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The effects of female labor force participation on obesity

Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Peralta-Alva, … - 2011

This paper assesses whether a causal relationship exists between recent increases in female labor force participation and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s and 1990s have been established by prior literature as...

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Taxing childcare: Effects on family labor supply and children

Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2012

older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286908

(Non)persistent effects of fertility on female labour supply

Rondinelli, Concetta; Zizza, Roberta - 2011

The negative association between fertility and female labour supply is complicated by the endogeneity of fertility. We address this problem by using an exogenous variation in family size caused by infertility shocks, related to the fact that nature prevents some women from achieving their...

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Minimum wages and female labor supply in Germany

Bredemeier, Christian - 2012

the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and …

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Labor supply heterogeneity and demand for child care of mothers with young children

Apps, Patricia; Kabatek, Jan; Rees, Ray; van Soest, Arthur - 2012

household production and formal child care to the wage rate, the price of child care, taxes, benefits and child care subsidies …. To account for the non-convex nature of the budget sets and, possibly, the household technology, a discrete choice model … is used. The model is estimated using the HILDA dataset, a rich household survey of the Australian population, which …

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Delayed first birth and new mothers' labor market outcomes: Evidence from biological fertility shocks

Bratti, Massimiliano; Cavalli, Laura - 2013

We investigate the impact of delaying the first birth on Italian mothers' labor market outcomes around childbirth. The effect of postponing motherhood is identified using biological fertility shocks, namely the occurrence of miscarriages and stillbirths. Focusing on mothers' behavior around...

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To work or not to work? The effect of child-care subsidies on the labour supply of parents

Kosonen, Tuomas - 2013

This paper studies the effect of child-care subsidies on parental labour supply. I use variation arising from changes in the municipality-specific supplement to Finnish child homecare allowance to identify the causal effect of subsidies on the labour force participation of parents. The variation...

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