Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283614 
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Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 24-006
Publisher: 
ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, Mannheim
Abstract: 
This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting regional variation in childcare supply over the 1990s, I show that in regions with stronger increases in childcare, wage inequality among women increased less strongly compared to regions with smaller increases. This is primarily driven by the lower half of the wage distribution and qualitatively similar for full- and part-time workers. Larger expansions in childcare, however, do not contribute to a further closing of the gender wage gap.
Subjects: 
wage inequality
childcare
gender wage gap
JEL: 
J13
J16
J31
J82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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