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| Title: | | Does providing childcare to unemployed affect unemployment duration?  |
| Authors: | | Vikman, Ulrika |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper // IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation 2010:5 |
| Abstract: | | This paper examines if the probability of leaving unemployment changes for unemployed parents with young children when childcare is available. To investigate this, I use the heterogeneity among Swedish municipalities before the implementation of a 2001 Swedish childcare reform making it mandatory for municipalities to offer child-care to unemployed parents for at least 15 hours per week. In the study difference-in-differences and difference-in-difference-in-differences methods are used. The results indicate a positive effect on the probability of leaving unemployment for mothers when childcare is available, but no effect is found for fathers. For mothers, some heterogeneous effects are also found, with a greater effect on the probability of leaving unemployment for work when childcare is available for mothers with only compulsory schooling or university education and mothers with two children. |
| Subjects: | | Unemployment duration childcare |
| JEL: | | J13 J64 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers, Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU)
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