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This chapter surveys recent literature on the drivers of mothers' labour supply in OECD countries. We present a number of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family composition and mothers' employment. We aim to answer key questions on their decision to return to work...
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In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We … that expanded childcare for 1-2- year-olds in Norway. Our results reveal a significant increase in the overall employment …
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price. We find that the limited literature in Australia has suffered from measurement error problems stemming in large part … waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (covering the period 2005 to 2007) to address …
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We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and...
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substantially in a fiscal system based solely on individual rather than joint taxation. -- time use ; income tax ; child care …
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Full-day kindergarten programs are expanding across North America, driven by a policy focus on early childhood development. These programs also affect parents' budget sets and may lead to changes in labour market outcomes. We exploit the unusual nature of Ontario's government school system to...
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the importance of childcare related variables. We find working mothers do not increase their working hours when hourly … their working hours, that we find, is the provision of high quality formal childcare. Implying that government policy aiming … the quantity of formal child care that is available. -- mothers ; Britain ; childcare ; parents labour supply …
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data on all Dutch employees up to 30 June 2020, focussing on the national lockdown and the emergency childcare for … large negative labour supply effects, suggesting emergency childcare was not sufficient for this group. However, overall …
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Despite the introduction of childcare subsidies in many countries, the cost of childcare is still thought to hinder … parental employment. Many governments are considering increasing the generosity of their childcare subsidies, but the a priori … on parents' labour supply of offering free part-time childcare and of expanding this offer to the whole school day in …
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This paper proposes a dynamic structural model of labour market and childcare choices for couples within a collective … model of decision making. We formalise explicitly the need for childcare as a function of the age structure of the children …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are …
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