According to many studies, childcare is an important input for children's development but it is also used to free up time for parents to work. However, many households are still confronted with availability constraints in childcare. In the recent past, many governments implemented policy reforms...

This paper uses generational accounts to analyse the long term sustainability of Belgian public finances. We derive age-profiles of detailed tax and expenditure categories from micro data and microsimulation models, and plug them into a long run demographic projection. We assess fiscal long term...

According to many studies, childcare is an important input for children’s development but it is also used to free up time for parents to work. However, many households are still confronted with availability constraints in childcare. In the recent past, many governments implemented policy...

This paper uses generational accounts as an instrument to analyse the fiscal long term sustainability of Belgian public finances. Age-profiles of detailed tax and expenditure categories are derived from micro data and microsimulation models, and then plugged into a long run demographic...

In line with the Earned Income Tax Credit in the United States and the Working Family Tax Credit in the United Kingdom, the Flemish government implemented in 2007 a similar in-work tax credit in order to increase the employment rate and to make working financially more attractive. This paper...

This paper analyses how maternal labor supply responds to the price and availability of childcare services. It focuses in particular on the childcare market of Flanders, which is characterised by above average childcare use, a wide variety of price schemes and suppliers, and strong government...

According to many studies, childcare is important for its pedagogical, economical and social function for both children and parents. However, many households are still confronted with availability constraints in childcare. In the recent past, many governments implemented policy reforms in order...

The Flemish government implemented in 2007 an in-work tax credit in order to increase theemployment rate and to make working financially more attractive. This paper investigates howtotal labour supply changes and checks if the cost reductions due to these behavioral reactionsare large enough to...