Day-care availability, maternal employment and satisfaction of parents. Evidence from cultural and policy variations in Germany.

Autor/inn/en	Schober, Pia; Schmitt, Christian
Titel	Day-care availability, maternal employment and satisfaction of parents. Evidence from cultural and policy variations in Germany. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Verfügbarkeit von Kinderbetreuung, Erwerbstätigkeit von Müttern und Zufriedenheit von Eltern. Erkenntnisse über kulturelle und politische Unterschiede in Deutschland.
Quelle	In: Journal of European social policy, 27 (2017) 5, S. 433-446 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0958-9287; 1461-7269
DOI	10.1177/0958928716688264
Schlagwörter	Kultur; Soziale Situation; Zufriedenheit; Ehefrau; Ehemann; Mutter; Vater; Eltern; Kinderbetreuung; Frühpädagogik; Angebotsentwicklung; Vollzeitarbeit; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; Regionaler Vergleich; Allein erziehende Mutter; Ehepaar
Abstract	"This study investigates how the availability and expansion of childcare services for children aged under 3 years relate to the subjective wellbeing of German mothers and fathers. It extends previous studies by examining in more detail the relationship between day-care availability and use, maternal employment and parental subjective wellbeing during early childhood in a country with expanding childcare services and varying work - care cultures. The empirical analysis links annual day-care attendance rates at the county-level to individual-level data of the Socio-Economic Panel Study for 2007 - 2012 and the 'Families in Germany' Study for 2010 - 2012. We apply fixed-effects panel models to samples of 2002 couples and 376 lone mothers. We find some evidence of a positive effect of the day-care expansion only on satisfaction with family life for lone mothers and for full-time employed partnered mothers. Transitions to full-time employment are associated with reductions in subjective wellbeing irrespective of local day-care availability among partnered mothers in West Germany but not in East Germany. These results suggest that varying work - care cultures between East and West Germany are more important moderators of the relationship between maternal employment and satisfaction than short-term regional expansions of childcare services." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2017/3