Can parents afford to work? Childcare costs, tax-benefit policies and work incentives.

Autor/inn/en	Immervoll, Herwig; Barber, David
Titel	Can parents afford to work? Childcare costs, tax-benefit policies and work incentives.
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2006), 69 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. 1932
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Familie; Beruf; Eltern; Familie; Familienpolitik; Kosten; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Internationaler Vergleich; Kinderbetreuung; Arbeitsplatzangebot; Familienleistungsausgleich; Familienpolitik; Eltern; Kinderbetreuung; Steuerentlastung; Erwerbstätigkeit; Kosten; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Nichterwerbstätigkeit; Arbeitsplatzangebot; Beruf; Arbeitsanreiz; Internationaler Vergleich; Arbeitspapier; OECD (Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung); OECD-Staaten
Abstract	"Childcare policies play a crucial role in helping parents reconcile care and employment-related tasks. This paper quantifies the net cost of purchasing full-time centre-based childcare in OECD countries taking into account a wide range of influences on household budgets, including fees charged by childcare providers as well as childcare-related tax concessions and cash benefits available to parents. Building on these calculations, family resources are evaluated for different employment situations in order to assess the financial trade-offs between work and staying at home. Results are disaggregated to identify the policy features that present barriers to work for parents whose employment decisions are known to be particularly responsive to financial work incentives: lone parents and second earners with young children requiring care. The results indicate that the cost of purchasing childcare services should be analysed in conjunction with other social and fiscal policies that! affect family incomes. While childcare fees can be very high, high prices may not impede employment if tax-benefit systems incorporate well-balanced provisions that help parents pay for these services. Conversely, even highly subsidised childcare markets can leave parents with little financial gain from employment if high tax burdens or benefit claw-back rates give rise to adverse work incentives." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Querschnitt. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2006/3