Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/37321 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Female Labor Supply No. F6-V1
Publisher: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Consistent with facts for a cross-section of OECD countries, I document that the labor force participation rate of West German mothers with children aged zero to two exceeds the corresponding child care enrollment rate whereas the opposite is true for mothers with children aged three to mandatory school age. I develop a life-cycle model that explicitly accounts for this age-dependent relationship through various types of non-paid and paid child care. The calibrated version of the model is used to evaluate two recently passed policy reforms concerning the supply of subsidized child care for children aged zero to two in Germany. These counterfactual policy experiments suggest that the lack of subsidized child care constitutes indeed for some females a barrier to participate in the labor market and depresses fertility.
Subjects: 
Child Care
Fertility
Life-cycle Female Labor Supply
JEL: 
J13
D91
D13
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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