Childcare and labor force participation in the Netherlands: the importance of attitudes and opinions

Gameren, Edwin van; Ooms, Ingrid

doi:10.1007/s11150-009-9062-9

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“…There are a few cases such as Blau and Robins (), Del Boca et al . (), Wetzels (), and Van Gameren and Ooms (), where there is no elasticity estimate reported because the coefficient on price is close to 0 and statistically insignificant. In these cases, we set the elasticity to 0.…”

Section: A Review Of the Empirical Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Child Care Prices and Maternal Employment: A Meta‐analysis

Akgündüz

Plantenga

2017

Journal of Economic Surveys

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Abstract. The literature estimates for labor force participation elasticity with regard to child care prices are extensive and varying. While some estimates imply substantial gains from child care subsidies, others find insignificant effects. To determine the causes of the variance, this paper reviews and analyzes the elasticity sizes using estimates from 36 peer-reviewed articles and working papers in the literature. We start by reviewing the theoretical and empirical aspects related to participation elasticity with regard to child care costs, paying special attention to sample characteristics, methodological aspects, and macro level factors. We conclude by providing a metaregression using control variables based on our review of the literature to explain some of the differences between the estimates. As research builds on and improves the methods and assumptions in prior works, elasticity estimates have become smaller over time. This decline might also be partially explained by changes in labor market characteristics. In countries with high rates of part-time work and very high or very low rates of female labor force participation, we find elasticity rates to be smaller.

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Section: A Review Of the Empirical Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Child Care Prices and Maternal Employment: A Meta‐analysis

Akgündüz

Plantenga

2017

Journal of Economic Surveys

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“…Although the Child Care Act of 2005 grants low-income households higher subsidies which should enhance their access to child care, this Act has also led to a decline in child care provision in poorer, rural areas in the years following (Noailly and Visser, 2009). This decline in supply, costs in childcare and possibly the different attitudes and opinions of mothers on childcarewhether this is beneficial to their children or not-might also explain why mothers in deprived areas are less encouraged to make the transition to work (van Gameren and Ooms, 2009). Furthermore, the requirement to accept generally acceptable labour can be waived for single parents if the municipality is of the opinion that childcare possibilities in the neighbourhood are scarce and the educational level and capacity of the welfare benefit recipient are not considered to be sufficient.…”

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Finding a Job: The Role of the Neighbourhood for Different Household Configurations over the Life Course

Miltenburg¹,

Werfhorst²

2016

Eur Sociol Rev

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The field of neighbourhood effects studies on individual socio-economic outcomes has two main shortcomings. Most studies (i) ignore the impact of the neighbourhood on the duration of inactivity and timing of entering the labour market and, (ii) disregard the heterogeneity of these neighbourhood effects for different household configurations over the life course. Yet, it is likely that the neighbourhood influences its residents in heterogeneous ways. This study analyses the differential impact of the neighbourhood on the individual transition rates from inactivity to work from a life course perspective. It applies a discrete time event history analysis with unique individual-level population panel data from 2004 to 2011 in the Netherlands, covering a random sample of over 30,000 individuals with changes in employment status, household position, and neighbourhoods over time. The models suggest that residing in a deprived neighbourhood only hampers the transition to work for women, above and beyond their individual characteristics and household resources, as well as that this association hinges on their household composition: our findings show that only for partnered mothers with the youngest child below 4 years and single mothers with the youngest child between 4 and 12 years a higher level of neighbourhood deprivation results in a statistically significant reduction in the odds of making the transition to work. These conditional neighbourhood effects reveal unexplored mechanisms and generate different kinds of policy implications from the ones we usually see.

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“…10 In addition, being married or cohabiting marginally and positively affects the decision to spend time on childcare, but not how much time to spend on it, while having a lower household income negatively affects the length of time spent on childcare, but not the participation decision. In contrast, education does not seem to significantly affect time spent on 10 A significant body of economic literature investigates the determinants of childcare, both formal and informal, public or private, and a large number of these studies have been published in this journal (see, among others, Del Boca et al 2005;Kalenkoski et al 2007;van Gameren and Ooms 2009). Several studies by Kalenkoski, Ribar and Stratton investigate childcare determinants in the UK, employing the same dataset as this study.…”

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Children, Kitchen, Church: does ethnicity matter?

Zaiceva

Zimmermann

2013

Rev Econ Household

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Ethnic differences in the allocation of non-market time are important, as they may shed more light on the integration level of ethnic minorities and on the factors that affect both household productivity and ethnic identity. In this paper we examine the role of ethnicity and gender by analyzing differences in the time spent on a range of activities employing the 2000 UK Time Use Survey. Based on the economics of religion and identity economic models, we hypothesize that if ethnic minority women have lower opportunity costs of time and a strong 'ethnic' or 'traditionally female' identity, they will engage more in 'traditional' home activities. Double-hurdle regression results indicate that while the effect for childcare is not significant when estimated for parents only, non-white women spend significantly more time on food management and particularly religious activities than white women, with the greatest effect of the latter being for Pakistani and Bangladeshi women.

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Childcare and labor force participation in the Netherlands: the importance of attitudes and opinions

Abstract: Childcare use, Labor force participation, Attitudes and opinions, Endogeneity, J13, C34, D10, Z13,

Cited by 33 publications

References 42 publications

Child Care Prices and Maternal Employment: A Meta‐analysis

Child Care Prices and Maternal Employment: A Meta‐analysis

Finding a Job: The Role of the Neighbourhood for Different Household Configurations over the Life Course

Children, Kitchen, Church: does ethnicity matter?

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