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Family Benefits in Austria – An Overview

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  • Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger

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In recent years Austrian family policy aimed at improving individual work-life balances and increasing the participation of fathers. This included introducing child care benefit months that cannot be transferred between partners, adding a short-term income-dependent option to the original lump-sum child care benefit payments, creating additional child care facilities for under-3-year-olds and extending afternoon care facilities for school children. Nevertheless, monetary benefits are still considerably more prevalent in Austria than in other countries. In combination with other schemes, such as long-term child care benefit options, the substantially lower earnings on average of women in the labour market and, not least, marked popular scepticism of working mothers with small children, the current structure of family benefits tends to support a family model which provides for mothers to undertake most of the care duties and for fathers to pursue the role of main bread-winner.

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  • Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger, 2015. "Family Benefits in Austria – An Overview," WIFO Bulletin, WIFO, vol. 20(14), pages 156-165, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:wfo:wblltn:y:2015:i:14:p:156-165
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    1. Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger, 2015. "Familienleistungen und familienpolitische Instrumente in ausgewählten europäischen Ländern," WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports), WIFO, vol. 88(3), pages 195-209, March.
    2. Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger, 2015. "Family Benefits and Family Policy in Selected European Countries," WIFO Bulletin, WIFO, vol. 20(15), pages 166-179, September.
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    1. Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger, 2016. "Fiscal Policy Facing Major Challenges with Tax Reform, Need for Growth-Enhancing Investment and Consolidation Targets. Federal Fiscal Framework 2016-2019 and Draft Federal Budget 2016," WIFO Bulletin, WIFO, vol. 21(2), pages 12-29, February.
    2. Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger, 2017. "Fiscal Policy Facing Manifold Challenges. Federal Fiscal Framework 2017-2020 and Draft Federal Budget 2017," WIFO Bulletin, WIFO, vol. 22(7), pages 58-72, July.
    3. Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger, 2015. "Family Benefits and Family Policy in Selected European Countries," WIFO Bulletin, WIFO, vol. 20(15), pages 166-179, September.
    4. Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger, 2015. "The Tax Reform 2015-16 – Measures and Overall Assessment," WIFO Bulletin, WIFO, vol. 20(20), pages 222-237, December.

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