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School entry, afternoon care and mothers' labour supply

Gambaro, Ludovica; Marcus, Jan; Peter, Frauke - 2016

Most literature on the relationship between childcare availability and maternal labour force participation examines childcare for preschool aged children. Yet families must continue to arrange childcare once their children enter primary school, particularly in countries where the school day ends...

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A multilevel analysis of child care and the transition to motherhood in Western Germany

Hank, Karsten; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - 2002

In this paper, we take a multilevel perspective to investigate the role of child care in the transition to motherhood in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child care arrangements should be a central element of the local...

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The availability of child care and mothers' employment in West Germany

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Hank, Karsten - 1999

There is a vast empirical literature investigating the effects of child care costs on female employment. Day care costs are usually treated as a reduction in female wages, which is supposed to negatively affect a woman's propensity to participate in the labor market. In this paper, we argue that...

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The impact of the length of schooling on the timing of family formation

Koebe, Josefine; Marcus, Jan - 2020

Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit the introduction of short school years in Germany in...

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Kinderbetreuung und Fertilität in Deutschland

Hank, Karsten; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2003

Versorgung mit bedarfsgerechter Kinderbetreuung. Eine umfassendes Angebot an Betreuungsplätzen fördert jedoch nicht nur die … regionalen Verfügbarkeit von Kinderbetreuung auf das Geburtenverhalten west- und ostdeutscher Frauen in den Jahren 1996 bis 2000 …. Zentrales Ergebnis unserer Analyse ist, dass in den östlichen Bundesländern die Verfügbarkeit institutioneller Kinderbetreuung …

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