Arbeitspapier
Investing in Subsidized Childcare to Reduce Child Poverty: an Adequate Strategy?
Expanding childcare is often considered as a suitable way to enhance employment opportunities of mothers with young children as well as to reduce child poverty. In this study the authors critically investigate this assertion by simulating a set of scenarios of increasing subsidized childcare slots and mothers' employment. For a variety of European welfare states we estimate the impact on poverty and on the government budget using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD. The findings suggest that to achieve significant poverty reductions among young children, both additional childcare slots and increased mothers' employment should be well targeted. The expenditures for additional childcare slots can to a large extent be recovered by the government receipts generated by the additional employment; however, there appears to be a trade-off between the extra revenue that can be generated and the extent of poverty reduction.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: JRC Working Papers on Taxation and Structural Reforms ; No. 06/2019
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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child care
maternal employment
poverty
microsimulation
family policy
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hufkens, Tine
Figari, Francesco
Vandelannoote, Dieter
Verbist, Gerlinde
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
- (wo)
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Seville
- (wann)
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2019
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Hufkens, Tine
- Figari, Francesco
- Vandelannoote, Dieter
- Verbist, Gerlinde
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Entstanden
- 2019
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