The so-called 'Minijob-reform', that was introduced in April 2003 as part of the 'Hartz II'-reform, was intended to increase work incentives for people with low wages and thereby reduce structural unemployment. Therefore, the hours restriction of 15 hours per week was abolished and the threshold up to which earnings remain free of social security contributions (SSC) was increased. We calculate the ...
Die sog. Minijob-Reform, die als Teil des Zweiten Gesetzes für moderne Dienstleistungen am Arbeitsmarkt ("Hartz II") am 1. April 2003 in Kraft trat, soll die Arbeitsanreize im Bereich geringer Erwerbseinkommen verbessern und damit die strukturelle Arbeitslosigkeit reduzieren. Dazu wurde die bisherige Beschränkung der wöchentlichen Arbeitszeit auf maximal 15Stunden aufgehoben und die Geringfügigkeitsgrenze ...
Following Keen and Marchand (1997), the paper analyzes the effect of fiscal competition on the composition of public spending in a model where capital and skilled workers are mobile while low-skilled workers are immobile. Taxes are levied on capital and labor. Each group of workers benefits from a different kind of public good. Mobility of skilled workers provides an incentive for jurisdictions to ...
Das DIW Berlin hat sechs aktuelle Vorschläge für eine grundlegende Reform der deutschen Einkommens- und Ertragsbesteuerung untersucht, die von den Oppositionsparteien, dem Sachverständigenrat und einer Forschungsgruppe um den Verfassungsrechtler Paul Kirchhof gemacht worden sind. Diese Vorschläge wurden auf ihre Aufkommens- und Verteilungswirkungen sowie die Arbeitsangebotseffekte geprüft. Die fiskalischen ...
This study analyzes the effect of child care costs on the labor supply of mothers with preschool children in Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2002). Child care costs are estimated on the basis of a sample selection model. A structural household utility model, which is embedded in a detailed tax-benefit model, is used for labor supply estimation. In contrast to a previous German ...
This paper examines the impact of children on female wages in the UK using the National Child Development Study. Empirically this involves using an extension of the Roy model, which simultaneously corrects for the endogeneity of labour force participation and fertility. The wage differential between women without children and women with children is estimated to range between 19% and 22% not accounting ...