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This indicator measures the net childcare costs for parents using full-time centre-based childcare, after any benefits designed to reduce the gross childcare fees. Childcare benefits can be received in the form of childcare allowances, tax concessions, fee rebates and increases in other benefit entitlements. Net childcare costs are calculated for both couples and lone parents assuming two children aged 2 and 3. For couples, one parent earns 67% of the average wage whereas the other earns either minimum wage, 67% or 100% of the average wage.
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This indicator measures the percentage of earnings lost to either higher taxes or lower benefits when a parent of two children takes up full-time employment and uses centre-based childcare. Calculations refer to a couple with two children aged 2 and 3 where the other parent works full-time at 67% of the average wage.
Benefits and wages
Do cash transfers prevent families from income poverty? Does work pay? By how much does family income drop during unemployment? The Benefit and Wages database provides a large number of timely tax-benefit indicators that allows monitoring progress on recent tax-benefit reforms and comparing benefit generosity and work incentives across countries, years and family circumstances. The indicators use output from the OECD tax-benefit model, which enables international comparisons of how tax liabilities and benefit entitlements shape the disposable income of working-age families.
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