Does child care availability play a role in maternal employment and children’s development? Evidence from Italy

Brilli, Ylenia; Boca, Daniela Del; Pronzato, Chiara

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“…Both the availability of childcare and of part-time can be considered as factors favouring work-family reconciliation, as studies on their impacts on employment show (Del Boca 2002;Brilli et al 2016). Reconciling work and family, they can have a positive effect on women's wages, increasing women attachment to the firm and their investment in firm-specific skills (Christofides et al 2013;Triventi 2013).…”

Section: Regional Differences Institutional Setting and Social Normsmentioning

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The Gender Wage Gap Among College Graduates in Italy

Piazzalunga

2018

Ital Econ J

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy, but IZA takes no institutional policy positions. The IZA research network is committed to the IZA Guiding Principles of Research Integrity. The IZA Institute of Labor Economics is an independent economic research institute that conducts research in labor economics and offers evidence-based policy advice on labor market issues. Supported by the Deutsche Post Foundation, IZA runs the world's largest network of economists, whose research aims to provide answers to the global labor market challenges of our time. Our key objective is to build bridges between academic research, policymakers and society. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. Terms of use: Documents inSchaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9 53113 Bonn, Germany finally, the paper explores regional differences in wage gaps and how institutional and macro-economic variables are related to them.In Italy, the gender wage gap among recent college graduates is about 5.6%; adding academic controls and the field of study only slightly reduces the gap, which remains completely unexplained by observable characteristics. When considering the wage gap within each field, the total gap is largest in Law (16.3%), Political-Social sciences (12.3%),and Economics-Statistics (10.8%). However, with few exceptions there exists a significant unexplained gap in all majors.The analysis of regional differences provides interesting results, even though the evidence is only descriptive. The gender wage gap is larger in the South of Italy. Notably, childcare coverage and part-time availability reduce the unexplained wage gap, which is remarkable considering that the focus is on recently graduated people. Finally, more traditional attitudes towards gender roles are associated with larger gender wage gaps.2

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Section: Regional Differences Institutional Setting and Social Normsmentioning

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The Gender Wage Gap Among College Graduates in Italy

Piazzalunga

2018

Ital Econ J

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“…The study finds a greater effect on reading test scores of an increase in the availability of public childcare in areas where the supply is scarcer and in disadvantaged areas [10].…”

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Childcare choices and child development

Boca¹

2015

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“…Wrohlich (2011) shows that policy reforms in Germany targeted at an increase in childcare slots had larger effects on maternal labor supply than reductions of the monetary cost in childcare. For Italy, Del Boca (2002), Del Boca and Vuri (2007) and Brilli et al (2013) find a positive impact of childcare availability on the likelihood of mothers working. These studies restrict the choice set of households according to a simulated probability of being rationed in the childcare sector.…”

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Maternal employment: the impact of triple rationing in childcare

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This paper analyses how maternal labor supply relates to the availability of childcare services in Flanders, a region that has a fairly abundant service provision, but does not offer a service guarantee as in several Nordic countries. Variation in price/quantity bundles that stems from the interplay of three types of childcare services are used to identify mothers' labor supply responses. The estimates indicate that policy measures which increase the availability may exhibit large labor supply effects. Moreover, budgetary simulations suggest the expansion of subsidised care services to be beneficial to the exchequer.Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article

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Does child care availability play a role in maternal employment and children’s development? Evidence from Italy

Cited by 141 publications

References 23 publications

The Gender Wage Gap Among College Graduates in Italy

The Gender Wage Gap Among College Graduates in Italy

Childcare choices and child development

Maternal employment: the impact of triple rationing in childcare

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