The cost of childcare has a significant impact on the decision of parents - particularly mothers - to work. Prior to … the introduction of subsidies for formal childcare in Ireland in 2019 through the National Childcare Scheme (NCS), the … cost of full-time centre-based childcare was among the most expensive in the OECD. Doorley et al. (2021) show that the …

The cost of childcare has a significant impact on the decision of parents – particularly mothers – to work. Prior to … the introduction of subsidies for formal childcare in Ireland in 2019 through the National Childcare Scheme (NCS), the … cost of full-time centre-based childcare was among the most expensive in the OECD. In this paper, we investigate the …

The Barcelona targets on childcare help increase women's labour-market participation and close the gender employment … targets, this paper estimates the impact on labour par- ticipation of mothers of alternative scenarios of formal childcare … participation in the labour market and childcare systems. The analysis makes use of the EUROLAB and EU- ROMOD models, based on EU …