Arbeitspapier
Public Child Care and Mothers' Career Trajectories
We study the impact of public child care on mothers' career trajectories, focusing on qualitative dimensions of career choices. Using an event study approach, we find that child care helps mothers to return to the labor market more quickly and that this effect is mainly due to an increase in part-time employment. At the same time, we find no short- or long-term effects of child care on the quality of maternal careers, as measured, for example, by employment stability, employment in occupations with abstract tasks, or employment in managerial positions. Furthermore, we find no evidence of heterogeneous effects across mothers.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16433
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Labor Economics Policies
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- Subject
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child care
maternal employment
career costs of children
women's careers
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Huber, Katrin
Rolvering, Geske
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2023
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Huber, Katrin
- Rolvering, Geske
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2023
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