Wage inequality consequences of expanding public childcare

Lukas Riedel

No 24-006, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting regional variation in childcare supply over the 1990s, I show that in regions with stronger increases in childcare, wage inequality among women increased less strongly compared to regions with smaller increases. This is primarily driven by the lower half of the wage distribution and qualitatively similar for full- and part-time workers. Larger expansions in childcare, however, do not contribute to a further closing of the gender wage gap.

Keywords: wage inequality; childcare; gender wage gap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J16 J31 J82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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