The Barcelona targets on childcare help increase women's labour-market participation and close the gender employment gap by enhancing the provision of early childhood education and care. To contribute to the debate on the revision of the targets, this paper estimates the impact on labour par-...

We introduce endogenous labour supply decisions with an extensive and intensive margin in a spatial computational general equilibrium model. We show that endogenising labour supply generates an additional economic loss from a negative economic shock compared to a model with fixed labour supply....

While the pandemic initially halted the ongoing upswing of the Danish labour market and reduced employment substantially, the recovery has taken place at an unprecedented pace, which inevitably has led to substantial pressure on the labour market. Transitory pandemic-related labour demand can...