Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/286591 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 1205
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
The debate on the effects of child care policies on household and individual behavior is substantial but lacks a discussion of the unintended consequences of rising wages in the child care work sector. To address this gap in the debate, the relation between rising pay and formal child care hours, informal child care hours, and employment hours is analyzed empirically with a case study on child care in Germany between 2012 and 2019. Among other findings, the evidence demonstrates that the consumption of formal child care hours of middle- and high-income households in eastern Germany correlates negatively with child care work wages, indicating price elasticity.
Subjects: 
care work wage
early childhood education and care
informal child care
employment hours
JEL: 
J13
J22
J38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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