Childcare services are increasingly regarded as a major policy lever to mitigate social inequalities. Such services are …, recent studies have shown that the use of formal childcare services is socially stratified, i.e. higher-income families or … families with a high-educated mother use childcare services to a much larger extent than lower-income families or families with …

This article introduces the idea of a childcare time benefit that reconciles three ambitions: to reach a high level of … labour market participation, to revalue parental childcare time and to enhance the freedom to choose in the reconciliation of … work and family life. The proposed benefit is based on the pattern of effective childcare time in society, that declines …

generosity, and find that the redistributive effect of child benefits is largely undone by subsidized childcare and parental …

The main goal of this paper is to unravel the social distribution of childcare policies: who benefits from government … investment on public childcare? If childcare policies are mainly used by those already working, and (scarce) budgetary resources … thus end up with the higher income brackets, genuine concern arises about the distributional consequences of childcare …

is the provision of childcare services, which are expected to increase maternal employment rates, further children …-centred investment strategy and explore whether childcare services in European countries in their current state of affairs are up to the … task of producing the anticipated benefits. The argument I develop is fairly simple: in order to be effective, childcare …

countries, we distinguish between two types of institutions: public childcare availability and public sector employment. We …-friendly circumstances on the labor market. By means of a logistic multilevel model, we find that both public childcare and public sector … behave differently on the labor market, that public childcare provision and public sector employment are helpful to raise the …

is the provision of childcare services, which are expected to increase maternal employment rates, further children …-centred investment strategy and explore whether childcare services in European countries in their current state of affairs are up to the … task of producing the anticipated benefits. The argument I develop is fairly simple: in order to be effective, childcare …

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 labour supply and childcare decision applied … under different policy simulation scenarios, evaluating the effects on labour supply and childcare usage and the potential …