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DIW Discussion Papers 570 / 2006
In this paper, I suggest an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a discrete choice panel data model ...
2006| Katharina Wrohlich
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DIW Discussion Papers 569 / 2006
Increasing work incentives for people with low incomes is a common topic in the policy debate across European countries. The "Mini-Job" reform in Germany - introduced on April 1, 2003 - can be seen in line with these policies, exempting labour income below a certain threshold from taxes and employees' social security contributions. We carry out an ex-post evaluation to identify the short-run effects ...
2006| Marco Caliendo, Katharina Wrohlich
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DIW Discussion Papers 565 / 2006
This paper models voters' preferences over central versus local education policies when there are private alternatives. Education is financed by income taxes and individuals are mobile between communities. Public education levels are chosen by majority vote. Contrary to conventional wisdom, centralisation may benefit the rich and poor, while the middle class prefer decentralised education. The model ...
2006| Rainald Borck
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DIW Discussion Papers 563 / 2006
Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a 'natural experiment' and apply the difference-in-difference ...
2006| Hans J. Baumgartner, Viktor Steiner
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DIW Discussion Papers 555 / 2006
Estimates of labour supply effects of recent UK reforms in the area of direct taxes and benefits show that policy can have significant influence on the level of employment. We confirm this in a simulation of in-work support system introduced into the German tax and benefit system. Our simulation results suggest that introducing in-work Tax Credits in Germany would increase employment of single individuals ...
2006| Peter Haan, Michal Myck
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DIW Discussion Papers 545 / 2006
The aggregate average wage is often used as an indicator of economic performance and welfare, and as such often serves as a benchmark for changes in the generosity of public transfers and for wage negotiations. Yet if economies experience a high degree of (nonrandom) fluctuation in employment the composition of the employed population will have a considerable effect on the computed average. In this ...
2006| Michal Myck, Leszek Morawski, Jerzy Mycielski
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DIW Discussion Papers 543 / 2005
Der Ausbau von Ganztagsschulen genießt derzeit - u.a. auf Grund des schlechten Abschneidens deutscher Schüler bei der PISA-Studie - hohe Priorität in der politischen Agenda. In diesem Beitrag soll untersucht werden, wie sich der Ausbau von Ganztagsschulen auf die Erwerbsbeteiligung von Müttern mit Kindern im Grundschulalter auswirken wird. Hierfür schätzen wir ein strukturelles Arbeitsangebotsmodell, ...
2005| Miriam Beblo, Charlotte Lauer, Katharina Wrohlich
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DIW Discussion Papers 542 / 2005
In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular belief that French high income families ...
2005| Alexandre Baclet, Fabien Dell, Katharina Wrohlich
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DIW Discussion Papers 538 / 2005
In this paper I develop an intertemporal discrete choice model of labor supply. The framework incorporates the nonlinearities in the household budget set and accounts for state dependence in labor supply. Based on panel data for Germany (SOEP), I estimate this model using a dynamic conditional logit panel data model with random effects. The estimation results show that state dependence is significantly ...
2005| Peter Haan
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DIW Discussion Papers 536 / 2005
To tackle mass unemployment and increase participation rates, the German government over recent years has mainly focused on supply side strategies, including 'making work pay' policies. The 2003 Mini-Job reform introduced an extended subsidy of social security contributions for low wage workers. In this paper, we evaluate the employment effects of this reform using a behavioural tax-benefit microsimulation ...
2005| Olivier Bargain, Marco Caliendo, Peter Haan, Kristian Orsini