To Work or Not to Work? The Effect of Childcare Subsidies on the Labour Supply of Parents

Kosonen, Tuomas

doi:10.1515/bejeap-2013-0073

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“…By contrast, in Scandinavian countries, public childcare is found to have no impact on the already high maternal labour force participation rate (e.g. Havnes and Mogstad, 2011;Kosonen, 2014;Lundin et al, 2008;Simonsen, 2010).…”

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School entry, afternoon care, and mothers’ labour supply

2018

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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. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractMost literature on the relationship between childcare availability and maternal labour force participation examines childcare for preschool aged children. Yet families must continue to arrange childcare once their children enter primary school, particularly in countries where the school day ends at lunchtime. In this paper we examine the case of Germany, a country that has moved from an exclusively half-day school system to one where formal afternoon care is increasingly available. We estimate the effect of afternoon care on maternal labour supply. To do so, we use a novel matching technique, entropy balancing, and draw on the rich and longitudinal data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We show that children's afternoon care increases mothers' employment rate and their working hours. To confirm the robustness of our results we conduct a series of sensitivity analysis and apply a newly proposed method to assess possible bias from omitted variables. Our findings highlight how childcare availability shapes maternal employment patterns well after school entry.

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2018

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“…Finnish parents who stay at home taking care of children under 3 years of age receive benefits, which has been shown to reduce the women's labour supply (Kosonen 2014). Finnish parents who stay at home taking care of children under 3 years of age receive benefits, which has been shown to reduce the women's labour supply (Kosonen 2014).…”

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“…The heterogeneity by family type is analysed by comparing workers without children in 1990 to those with children. Finnish parents who stay at home taking care of children under 3 years of age receive benefits, which has been shown to reduce the women's labour supply (Kosonen 2014). Therefore parents could potentially face a larger effect of job loss even 7 years after the recession.…”

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Economic Crises and Unemployment Persistence: Analysis of Job Losses During the Finnish Recession of the 1990s

Verho

2019

Economica

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This study estimates the effect of job loss for Finnish workers who were displaced during a severe recession in the early 1990s. The setting provides a sample of workers of which over 90% experienced unemployment after losing a job due to plant closure. We use linked employer-employee data to follow these workers up to 16 years after the job loss and to construct a closely matched comparison group of non-displaced workers. We estimate a more than 58% initial drop in employment and earnings after the job loss. At the end of follow-up, women's employment and earnings recover fully while men's employment remains 1-5% lower relative to the comparison groups, and men suffer a 5-8% earnings loss. We also find large effects on long-term unemployment that diminish slowly, and long-lasting effects on poverty risk.

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“…Ähnliche Regelungen gibt es in Finnland, Schweden und Norwegen. In diesen Ländern hat sich ein Rückgang der Frauenerwerbstätigkeit, besonders unter Migranten, ergeben, wodurch sich auch tendenziell die soziale und wirtschaftliche Integration dieser Gruppe verschlechtert (Hardoy und Schøne 2010;Kosonen 2014).…”

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Wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen zur Begegnung des demographischen Wandels

Pipke

Schmidt

2016

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Zusammenfassung Der demographische Wandel stellt zahlreiche Industrieländer vor große Herausforderungen, da er die Finanzierung der sozialen Sicherungssysteme gefährdet. Die Politik hat auf diese Herausforderungen mit zahlreichen Maß-nahmen reagiert, die zum einen die Auswirkungen des demographischen Wandels abfedern und zum anderen die Geburtsraten erhöhen sollen. Ziel dieses Aufsatzes ist es, die in Deutschland ergriffenen Maßnahmen, darzustellen, aus ökonomischer Sicht zu bewerten und mit den in anderen Ländern ergriffenen Maßnahmen zu vergleichen.Schlüsselwörter Demographischer Wandel · Soziale Sicherungssysteme · Wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen JEL-Classification J10 · J18 · H53 · H55 Abstract Demographic change is a serious challenge for a number of industrialized countries as it jeopardizes financing social security. Economic policy reacted to this challenge with a number of measures which aim at coping with the consequences of demographic change and also at increasing birth rates. The goal of this paper is to present measures taken up in Germany and to evaluate them from an economic perspective. Moreover, they are compared to the measures taken up by other countries.

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To Work or Not to Work? The Effect of Childcare Subsidies on the Labour Supply of Parents

Cited by 29 publications

References 27 publications

School entry, afternoon care, and mothers’ labour supply

School entry, afternoon care, and mothers’ labour supply

Economic Crises and Unemployment Persistence: Analysis of Job Losses During the Finnish Recession of the 1990s

Wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen zur Begegnung des demographischen Wandels

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