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Labor Supply Heterogeneity and Demand for Child Care of Mothers with Young Children
Apps, Patricia; Kabátek, Jan; Rees, Ray; Soest, Arthur van - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079127
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Partnered women’s labour supply and child care costs in Australia: measurement error and the child care price
Gong, Xiaodong; Breuing, Robert; King, Anthony - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2011
We show that measurement error in the constructed price of child care can explain why previous Australian studies have found partnered women’s labour supply to be unresponsive to child care prices. Through improved data and improved construction of the child care price variable, we find child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363238
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The Availability of Child Care Centers, Perceived Search Costs and Parental Life Satisfaction
Yamauchi, Chikako - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
-based childcare places per 100 children within a household’s residential area. The results show that an increase in the availability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459931
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Reassessing the Role of Child Care Costs in the Work and Care Decisions of Australian Families
Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Liu, Amy; Mitchell, Deborah - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1999
This paper reassesses how the costs associated with child care influence Australian families’ decisions about their work and child care arrangements. Using data from the Negotiating the Life Course Survey, we suggest that the cost of care may not be an important barrier to labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971306
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Why the Henry Review Fails on Family Tax Reform
Apps, Patricia - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010
While acknowledging the importance of fairness and the need to avoid creating disincentives in the design of tax reform, the Henry Review recommends a simplified Personal Income Tax and child payments withdrawn on a single family income test. This paper shows that the proposed reforms would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008483747
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Incentives to Work: Replacement Ratios and the Cost of Job Loss Among Indigenous Australians.
Daly, A.; Hunter, B. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998
The relationship between the social welfare system and employment incentives has received considerable attention in the literature. This paper uses data from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey to consider these issues for indigenous Australians. Two measures are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967983
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Child Care Costs and the Employment Status of Married Australian Mothers
Rammohan, Anu; Whelan, Stephen - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
Using data from the HILDA (Household Income and Labour Dynamics), this paper examines the implications of child care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032867
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Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012
wage di¤erences, variation in prices of bought-in inputs into household production in the form of child care, and domestic … productivity differences as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second earner labour supply. The analysis highlights … specification of household time use widens the set of cases in which individual taxation is welfare-superior to joint taxation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079132
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Family Taxation: An Unfair and Inefficient System
Apps, Patricia - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
This paper presents an analysis of the 2005-06 family tax system comprising the personal income tax, the Medicare Levy, Family Tax Benefits Parts A and B and tax offsets. The results show that most families are now taxed, in effect, on the basis of joint income. Through a succession of reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968010
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Investigating the Quitting Decision of Nurses: Panel Data Evidence from the British National Health Service
Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael; Price, Stephen Wheatley - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004
There is currently a worldwide shortage of registered nurses, driven by large shifts in both the demand for and supply of nurses. Consequently, various policies to increase the recruitment and retention of nurses are under discussion, in particular, the role that wage increases might have in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967995