Public childcare and maternal employment — New evidence for Germany
Boll, Christina ; Lagemann, Andreas
Labour. Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
2019
33
2
June
212-239
child care ; women workers ; working mother ; employment
Social protection - Family responsibilities
https://doi.org/10.1111/labr.12143
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"This study explores the linkage between five policy indicators of public childcare provision for below threes and maternal employment in terms of employment propensity and (conditional) working hours based on German microcensus data 2006–14. Our two‐way fixed effects estimations with individual and macro‐level confounders as well as year‐ and state‐fixed effects show that raising the coverage rate by 1 percentage point and the existence of a legal childcare claim from the age of one relates to an increase of weekly working hours by 0.5 per cent and 3.1 per cent, respectively. Regarding the employment propensity, correlations with policy indicators are rather weak."
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