Public Childcare and Maternal Employment — New Evidence for Germany

Boll, Christina; Lagemann, Andreas

doi:10.1111/labr.12143

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“…Therefore, the daily number of instructional hours increased. Further, an increasing number of families cannot provide meals during school days in a society increasingly dominated by shared earnings relationships, mainly associated with higher employment rates of mothers [9][10][11][12][13]. Therefore, the share of children dependent on out-of-home food provision is increasing.…”

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Purchasing Behavior, Setting, Pricing, Family: Determinants of School Lunch Participation

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Despite growing school lunch availability in Germany, its utilization is still low, and students resort to unhealthy alternatives. We investigated predictors of school lunch participation and reasons for nonparticipation in 1215 schoolchildren. Children reported meal habits, parents provided family-related information (like socioeconomic status), and anthropometry was conducted on-site in schools. Associations between school lunch participation and family-related predictors were estimated using logistic regression controlling for age and gender if necessary. School was added as a random effect. School lunch participation was primarily associated with family factors. While having breakfast on schooldays was positively associated with school lunch participation (ORadj = 2.20, p = 0.002), lower secondary schools (ORadj = 0.52, p < 0.001) and low SES (ORadj = 0.25, p < 0.001) were negatively associated. The main reasons for nonparticipation were school- and lunch-related factors (taste, time constraints, pricing). Parents reported pricing as crucial a reason as an unpleasant taste for nonparticipation. Nonparticipants bought sandwiches and energy drinks significantly more often on school days, whereas participants were less often affected by overweight (OR = 0.66, p = 0.043). Our data stress school- and lunch-related factors as an important opportunity to foster school lunch utilization.

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“…To support female migrants, especially during the first years after migration, it is important to increase the supply of childcare. Boll and Lagemann (2019) focus on the impact of several childcare expansions on maternal employment and show a positive relationship between the childcare coverage rate and the intensive margin of maternal employment. Since 2013, in Germany, all mothers have the legal right to claim public child care for children aged 1 year or older.…”

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How Elastic is the Labour Supply of Female Migrants Relative to the Labour Supply of Female Natives?

Fendel

2020

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This study estimates the wage elasticities of migrants and natives by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984 to 2015 and a grouping instrumental variable estimator. Female migrants who live with a partner have lower own- and cross-wage elasticities than respective female natives, and the elasticities of non-Western female migrants are insignificant. The relationship between participation and elasticity is not in all cases positive, but parallel to labour market integration, the time since migration increases the elasticities of women. Elasticities indicate the potential to increase participation; therefore, it is especially important for non-Western female migrants to remove barriers to flexible wage responses.

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“…Consequently, the proportion of West German children in public childcare under the age of three increased from 8% to 27% between 2006 and 2014 (Zoch and Schober, 2018). Previous literature on the reforms of the third phase has indicated a positive relationship between public childcare provision and maternal employment (Boll and Lagemann, 2019). Mothers with at least a vocational degree, with a second child, and who had access to full-time childcare profited most (Zoch, 2020).…”

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Long-term trends in the gender income gap within couples. West-Germany, 1978-2011

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Saile³

2021

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Over the past 50 years, women in Western societies have increased their level of education and their participation in the labour market. Nevertheless, they continue to contribute significantly less to a couple’s income than their male partners. Here, we ask how the gender income gap within couples has changed over the past decades and in which groups it has decreased or increased. We synthesize streams of argumentation regarding the sources of changes in the gap into one broad perspective on the changing opportunities available to coupled women to convert their income potential into actual income contributions, and how this relates to the income trends of their male counterparts. Using German Microcensus data, we show that West German women contributed 16.5% to couples’ income in 1978 and had increased their contribution to 30.1% by 2011. Our decompositions reveal that women contributed to this mostly by changes in composition, namely due to being more highly educated and working longer hours. Women contributed very little due to increased income returns. Income trends of non-working women are a notable exception. In contrast, men contributed to the trend with changes in income returns. Their higher education and full-time premiums have been a strong counter to the overall trend.

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Public Childcare and Maternal Employment — New Evidence for Germany

Cited by 20 publications

References 35 publications

Purchasing Behavior, Setting, Pricing, Family: Determinants of School Lunch Participation

Purchasing Behavior, Setting, Pricing, Family: Determinants of School Lunch Participation

How Elastic is the Labour Supply of Female Migrants Relative to the Labour Supply of Female Natives?

Long-term trends in the gender income gap within couples. West-Germany, 1978-2011

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