threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is …

Most public expenditure on childcare in the US is made through a federal program, the Child Care and Development Fund … employment and reduce welfare dependence among low-income families. Childcare subsidies have been effective in enabling parents …

childcare provided under the Affordable Childcare Scheme and Medical and GP-Visit Cards. Financial work incentives do not … usuallytake account of childcare costs or non-cash benefits that may be withdrawn as a person earns more. In this paper we use … the amount of time parents of young children spend at work results in the need to pay for childcare, the inclusion of …

In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We … that expanded childcare for 1-2- year-olds in Norway. Our results reveal a significant increase in the overall employment …

This paper proposes a dynamic structural model of labour market and childcare choices for couples within a collective … model of decision making. We formalise explicitly the need for childcare as a function of the age structure of the children …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are …

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 relaxing the existing constraints in terms of childcare availability and …

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 behaviour … applied to Italy in order to analyse the effects of relaxing the existing constraints in terms of childcare availability and …

Despite the introduction of childcare subsidies in many countries, the cost of childcare is still thought to hinder … parental employment. Many governments are considering increasing the generosity of their childcare subsidies, but the a priori … on parents’ labour supply of offering free part-time childcare and of expanding this offer to the whole school day in …

In 2002, the EU set targets for expanding childcare coverage, but most of the post-socialist countries are behind … schedule. While childcare expansion places a heavy financial burden on governments, low participation in the labor force by … childcare expansion may be limited by some common characteristics of these countries: family policies that do not support women …