Bitte verwenden Sie diesen Link, um diese Publikation zu zitieren, oder auf sie als Internetquelle zu verweisen: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18149 
Kompletter Metadatensatz
DublinCore-FeldWertSprache
dc.contributor.authorZimmermann, Klaus F.en
dc.contributor.authorHaisken-DeNew, John P.en
dc.contributor.authorBrück, Tilmanen
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T15:39:42Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-28T15:39:42Z-
dc.date.issued2003-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/18149-
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|aDeutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) |cBerlinen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aDIW Discussion Papers |x387en
dc.subject.jelD13en
dc.subject.jelH24en
dc.subject.jelJ23en
dc.subject.jelK42en
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 subsidising market-contracted household work-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn85137591Xen
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:diw:diwwpp:dp387en

Datei(en):
Datei
Größe
122.5 kB





Publikationen in EconStor sind urheberrechtlich geschützt.