Arbeitspapier

Female labour supply and childcare in Italy

It is widely recognized that childcare has important pedagogical, economic and social effects on both children and parents. This paper is the first attempt to estimate a joint structural model of female labour supply and childcare behavior applied to Italy in order to analyse the effects of relaxing the existing constraints in terms of childcare availability and costs by considering public, private and informal childcare. Results suggest that Italian households might alter their childcare and labour supply behaviors substantially if the coverage rate of formal childcare increases to reach the European targets. Overall, increasing child care coverage is estimated to be more effective in enhancing labor incentives than decreasing existing child care costs, at the same budgetary cost.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: JRC Working Papers on Taxation and Structural Reforms ; No. 02/2017

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Thema
childcare
female labour supply
Italy

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Narazani, Edlira
Figari, Francesco
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
(wo)
Seville
(wann)
2017

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Narazani, Edlira
  • Figari, Francesco
  • European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Entstanden

  • 2017

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