Joint Labor Supply and Childcare Choice Decisions of Married Mothers.
Опубликовано на портале: 08-12-2002
Journal of Human Resources.
2002.
Vol. 37.
No. 1.
P. 106-128.
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This paper examines the impact of childcare prices and wage rates on the joint employment
and childcare mode (center, sitter, relative, and husband) choice decisions of married
mothers by estimating both a mixed logit and universal logit choice model. Data are
drawn from the 1988 Canadian National Child Care Survey and the 1988 Labour Market
Activity Survey. The estimation results show that wages have a positive impact on
the probability of choosing any of the working states and that childcare prices for
center, sitter, and relative care reduce the probability of working and using each
respective mode of care. Sensitivity analyses reveal that the wage elasticity for
employment is fairly robust across model specifications, while the own-price elasticity
of childcare is sensitive to model specification, differing identifying assumptions
in the estimation of childcare price equations, and sample selection. The simulation
results show that differences exist in the degree to which government subsidies in
the form of wage subsidies, targeted childcare subsidies, or unconditional childcare
subsidies, impact on labor supply decisions and decisions to substitute across different
modes of care by those mothers already in the labor market.
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