This study examines the annual investment required for universal, collectively funded childcare and longterm care … childcare would require additional annual investment of 1.5 per cent of GDP by 2035 over and above current public spending of 0 …

In 1985, Gary Becker predicted employment and childcare sex gaps may ‘disappear or be greatly attenuated in the near … future.’ In this article, I examine trends in the employment gap between mothers and fathers of young children over the last …. Evidence from Canada finds childcare subsidies have a bigger impact on the gap than parental leave. …

that increased childcare availability for under-three-year-olds reduces the length of mothers’ employment interruptions …How do institutional factors and their interaction with individual resources influence the length of mothers … labour market perspective, and concentrates on how institutional factors explain varying durations of mothers’ employment …

Most OECD countries spend substantially more on maternity leave schemes than on early childcare. However, given high … childcare programs have now completed education and entered the labor market, allowing an investigation of these programs’ long …