Parental labour supply responses to the abolition of day care fees.

Autor/inn/en	Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; Spiess, C. Katharina
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Parental labour supply responses to the abolition of day care fees. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Reaktionen des elterlichen Arbeitsangebots auf die Abschaffung von Kitagebühren.
Quelle	Bonn (2019), 51 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 12780
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Mutter; Eltern; Kindergarten; Kindertagesstätte; Mutter; Reformpolitik; Vorschule; Auswirkung; Inanspruchnahme; Subventionspolitik; Arbeitszeit; Eltern; Kindergarten; Kindertagesstätte; Vorschule; Reformpolitik; Subventionspolitik; Arbeitskräfteangebot; Arbeitszeit; Auswirkung; Inanspruchnahme
Abstract	"This paper provides evidence that low private contributions to highly subsidised day care constrain mothers from working longer hours. We study the effects of a reform that abolished day care fees in Germany on parental labour supply. The reform removed private contributions to highly subsidised day care in the year before children enter primary school. We exploit the staggered reform across states with a difference-in-differences approach and event studies. Although participation in day care is almost universal for preschoolers, we provide evidence that the reform increases the intensity of day care use and the working time of mothers by about 7.1 percent. Single mothers, mothers with no younger children, mothers in denser local labour markets, and highly educated mothers react strongest. We find no evidence for labour supply responses at the extensive margin, and no evidence of responses in paternal labour supply. The effects on maternal labour supply fade-away by the end of primary school as mothers in the control group also gradually increase their labour supply as their children grow older." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2020/3