Childcare Subsidies, Wages, and Employment of Single Mothers

Autor/in	Tekin, Erdal
Titel	Childcare Subsidies, Wages, and Employment of Single Mothers
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 42 (2007) 2, S.453-487 (35 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Wages; Working Hours; Mothers; Child Care; Models; Part Time Employment; Employed Women; One Parent Family; Employment Level; Cost Effectiveness; Grants; Decision Making; National Surveys; Welfare Services; Public Policy; Low Income Groups + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wage; Löhne; Hours of work; Arbeitszeit; Mother; Mutter; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Analogiemodell; Part-time employment; Teilzeitbeschäftigung; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Beschäftigungsgrad; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Fürsorgeeinrichtung; Öffentliche Ordnung
Abstract	This paper develops and estimates a model for the choice of part-time and full-time employment and the decision to pay for childcare among single mothers. The results indicate that a lower childcare price and a higher full-time wage rate both lead to an increase in overall employment and the use of paid childcare. The part-time wage effects are found to be too small to have significant behavioral implications. An analysis of cost-effectiveness indicates that the additional hours of work generated per dollar of government expenditure is larger for a childcare subsidy than a wage subsidy. (Contains 5 tables and 26 footnotes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10