Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/76606 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1059
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We use French household data to estimate a structural model of female labor supply and use of paid child care outside the home. Child care costs are found to have little impact on the labor market participation decision of mothers. The model is used to study various policy issues. The influence of the current tax credit on child care expenditures on the mothers' labor supply is weak. Suppressing the APE (Parental Allowance for the Education) would cause the female participation rate in our sample to rise by 4 points and the proportion of mothers using paid care to rise by 2 points. The responses of women to policy changes are very heterogenous. Macroeconomic changes in female labor supply are equally due to switches between non-participation and participation and switches between working hours by working women.
Subjects: 
female labor supply
child care
welfare participation
fiscal policy
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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