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Public Childcare and Maternal Employment — New Evidence for Germany

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  • Christina Boll
  • Andreas Lagemann

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This study explores the linkage between five policy indicators of public childcare provision for below threes and maternal employment in terms of employment propensity and (conditional) working hours based on German microcensus data 2006–14. Our two‐way fixed effects estimations with individual and macro‐level confounders as well as year‐ and state‐fixed effects show that raising the coverage rate by 1 percentage point and the existence of a legal childcare claim from the age of one relates to an increase of weekly working hours by 0.5 per cent and 3.1 per cent, respectively. Regarding the employment propensity, correlations with policy indicators are rather weak.

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  • Christina Boll & Andreas Lagemann, 2019. "Public Childcare and Maternal Employment — New Evidence for Germany," LABOUR, CEIS, vol. 33(2), pages 212-239, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:labour:v:33:y:2019:i:2:p:212-239
    DOI: 10.1111/labr.12143
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    1. Honorata Bogusz, 2024. "Task content of jobs and mothers’ employment transitions in Germany," Journal for Labour Market Research, Springer;Institute for Employment Research/ Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), vol. 58(1), pages 1-22, December.
    2. Matias Berthelon & Diana Kruger & Melanie Oyarzún, 2023. "School schedules and mothers’ employment: evidence from an education reform," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 21(1), pages 131-171, March.
    3. Franz Neuberger & Tobias Rüttenauer & Martin Bujard, 2022. "Where does public childcare boost female labor force participation? Exploring geographical heterogeneity across Germany 2007–2017," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 46(24), pages 693-722.
    4. Tanja Fendel, 2020. "How Elastic is the Labour Supply of Female Migrants Relative to the Labour Supply of Female Natives?," De Economist, Springer, vol. 168(4), pages 475-517, December.
    5. Charlotte K. Marx & Martin Diewald, 2022. "What Works? How Combining Equal Opportunity and Work–Life Measures Relates to the Within-Firm Gender Wage Gap," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(6), pages 1-34, June.
    6. Alexandra N. Langmeyer & Claudia Recksiedler & Christine Entleitner-Phleps & Sabine Walper, 2022. "Post-Separation Physical Custody Arrangements in Germany: Examining Sociodemographic Correlates, Parental Coparenting, and Child Adjustment," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-23, March.
    7. Eric Schuss & Mohammed Azaouagh, 2023. "The expansion of early childcare and transitions to first and second birth in Germany," Bulletin of Economic Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 75(2), pages 476-507, April.

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