Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192297 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 315
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
A discrete choice model for labor supply and child care for mothers of preschoolers is presented. The mothers are assumed to make choices from a finite set of job possibilities and from a finite set of child care options. The options in the markets for child care are characterized by opening hours, fees and a number of quality attributes, such as mode of care. Similarly, jobs are characterized by a (fixed) wage rate, working hours and a number of variables related to job satisfaction. In the estimation of the model we take into account that the number of options available might vary across work/care combinations, and that some mothers are rationed in the market for care at day care centers. The model is employed to simulate the female labor supply effects of the Norwegian home care allowance reform.
Subjects: 
female labor supply
child care
discrete choice
microsimulation
JEL: 
J13
C25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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