EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

The impact of alternative childcare policies on mothers' employment in selected EU countries

Edlira Narazania, Ana Agundez Garcia, Michael Christl and Francesco Figari
Additional contact information
Edlira Narazania: JRC Sevilla
Ana Agundez Garcia: JRC Sevilla
Francesco Figari: University of Eastern Piedmont

No 636, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: This paper contributes to the debate on the revision of the Barcelona targets on childcare, as promoted by the European Commission in 2022, that aims to provide childcare for children below the age of 3. Using EUROLAB, a structural model of labour supply that can also accounts for labour demand constraints, we estimate female labour market participation reactions to alternative scenarios of formal childcare policies in European countries with very low child care provision for children below 3. We quantify the potential increases in the labour supply of mothers (at the extensive and intensive margins) in the case of fulfilling potential new targets of childcare provision (40%, 50%, 60% and 65%). Achieving these targets would lead to significantly increased labour supply of mothers especially in countries like Hungary and Poland where the current share of formal childcare and/or female labour participation is low. In countries like Portugal, that are far beyond the existing childcare target, changes in labour supply incentives are instead expected to be moderate. We further show that when accounting for labour demand, the expected final employment effects will be less pronounced, but still positive.

Keywords: Labour market equilibrium; labour supply; labour demand; structural models; discrete choice; childcare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J20 J22 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2023-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eec, nep-eur, nep-lma and nep-tra
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.ecineq.org/milano/WP/ECINEQ2023-636.pdf First version, 2023 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: The impact of alternative childcare policies on mothers' employment in selected EU countries (2023) Downloads
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:inq:inqwps:ecineq2023-636

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Maria Ana Lugo ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).

 
Page updated 2024-10-03
Handle: RePEc:inq:inqwps:ecineq2023-636