It is widely recognized that childcare has important pedagogical, economic and social effects on both children and parents. This paper is the first attempt to estimate a joint structural model of female labour supply and childcare behavior applied to Italy in order to analyse the effects of...

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...

Diese Studie untersucht die unterschiedlichen Betreuungsformen von Kindern und die Arbeitsmarktsituation von Müttern in Deutschland. Einen besonderen Schwerpunkt nimmt dabei der Zusammenhang zwischen der Form der Kinderbetreuung und dem Erwerbsverhalten der Mütter ein.