Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202264 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
JRC Working Papers on Taxation and Structural Reforms No. 06/2019
Publisher: 
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Seville
Abstract: 
Expanding childcare is often considered as a suitable way to enhance employment opportunities of mothers with young children as well as to reduce child poverty. In this study the authors critically investigate this assertion by simulating a set of scenarios of increasing subsidized childcare slots and mothers' employment. For a variety of European welfare states we estimate the impact on poverty and on the government budget using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD. The findings suggest that to achieve significant poverty reductions among young children, both additional childcare slots and increased mothers' employment should be well targeted. The expenditures for additional childcare slots can to a large extent be recovered by the government receipts generated by the additional employment; however, there appears to be a trade-off between the extra revenue that can be generated and the extent of poverty reduction.
Subjects: 
child care
maternal employment
poverty
microsimulation
family policy
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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