Labour market regimes, family policies, and women's behavior in the EU

Christine Erhel and Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière ()
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Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière: CEE - Centre d'études de l'emploi - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche - Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Santé, LIRSA - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en sciences de l'action - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM]

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Abstract: Using the EU-SILC database (2005-06) for twenty-four European countries, this article develops a comparative perspective on labor market situations of women and mothers with very young children in relation to labor market institutions and policies (especially childcare and leave schemes). Using multilevel multinomial logit models, our results show firstly the heterogeneity of national arrangements of women's labor market integration in Europe (including among new member states). Secondly, our results show the links between some national policy variables and women's behavior, despite the fact that individual factors explain labor market situations the most. Women's employment is positively related to formal childcare and to characteristics of national labor market regimes. The use of informal childcare is associated with lower women's employment rates, which might be explained by a substitution effect. The employment rate of mothers with very young children is positively related to public childcare and negatively to parental leave.

Keywords: childcare; Labor market status; gender economics; European comparisons (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-10-01
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Published in Feminist Economics, 2013, 19 (4), pp.76-109. ⟨10.1080/13545701.2013.842649⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2013.842649

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