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dc.contributor.authorBrück, Tilmanen
dc.contributor.authorHaisken-DeNew, John P.en
dc.contributor.authorZimmermann, Klaus F.en
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T16:12:19Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-28T16:12:19Z-
dc.date.issued2003-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/20194-
dc.description.abstractWe analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and several control variables for household composition. We find that the demand for household work in the shadow economy is very income elastic. This suggests that targeted wage subsidies, linked to household work agencies, would be very effective in raising the legal demand for domestic help. A wage subsidy of 50% of wage costs could thus establish up to 500,000 new jobs for previously unemployed or non-working low skilled workers. The net fiscal costs of such a scheme are about 6.200 Euro per full-time job. In addition, society benefits from more law enforcement and from a raised female labor supply, especially by highly qualified mothers.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x958en
dc.subject.jelH24en
dc.subject.jelD13en
dc.subject.jelK42en
dc.subject.jelJ23en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordlabor demanden
dc.subject.keywordwage subsidyen
dc.subject.keywordhousehold servicesen
dc.subject.keywordlow skilled unemploymenten
dc.subject.keywordshadow economyen
dc.subject.keywordGSOEPen
dc.subject.stwHauspersonalen
dc.subject.stwSchwarzarbeiten
dc.subject.stwLohnsubventionen
dc.subject.stwUngelernte Arbeitskräfteen
dc.subject.stwArbeitsnachfrageen
dc.subject.stwWirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyseen
dc.subject.stwDeutschlanden
dc.titleCreating low skilled jobs by subsidizing market-contracted household work-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn377101583en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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