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Child care assistance: Are subsidies or tax credits better?
Gong, Xiaodong; Breunig, Robert - 2012
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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Child care subsidies and child development
Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2008
Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269366
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The impact of non-parental child care on child development: Evidence from the summer participation "dip"
Herbst, Chris M. - 2012
Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive development, few studies deal convincingly with the potential endogeneity of child care choices. Using a panel of infants and toddlers from the Birth cohort of the Early Childhood...
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Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers
Mocan, H. Naci; Tekin, Erdal - 2001
This paper uses a rich employer-employee matched data set to investigate the existence and the extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care. The empirical strategy adjusts for workers? self-selection into the for-profit or nonprofit sectors, into full-time...
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Child Care Subsidies, Wages, and Employment of Single Mothers
Tekin, Erdal - 2002
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the … estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of child care and the wage rate on employment decision as well as the … decision to use paid child care among single mothers. The model distinguishes between the full-time and part-time employment …
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The multitasking of household production
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Foster, Gigi - 2010
The standard household production model does not incorporate multitasking, although time-diary data reveal that individuals regularly multitask. We formulate a model where time spent in child care can be sole-tasked or multitasked with other household production activities. This model implies...
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Labor supply heterogeneity and demand for child care of mothers with young children
Apps, Patricia; Kabatek, Jan; Rees, Ray; van Soest, Arthur - 2012
This paper introduces a static structural model of hours of market labor supply, time spent on child care and other domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior is taken as given. The main goal is to analyze the...
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Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labor Market Success
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the effects on labour market outcomes of literacy, numeracy and educational attainment. The survey includes a range of literacy and numeracy variables that are highly inter-correlated. A ?general to specific?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262797
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Immigrant wage and employment assimilation: A comparison of methods
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hanel, Barbara; McVicar, Duncan - 2012
We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over …-effects model generates estimated employment assimilation profiles that are flatter and significantly different to those produced by …
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Child Care Choices by Italian Households
Del Boca, Daniela; Locatelli, Marilena; Vuri, Daniela - 2004
In spite of relatively generous public subsidies and a reputation for high quality, only a very limited proportion of Italian families use public child care. In this paper we explore the significance of various factors on the choices made between different types of child care. In part one, we...
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