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- Title
Child Care Availability, Quality and Affordability: Are Local Problems Related to Labour Supply?
- Authors
BREUNIG, ROBERT; WEISS, ANDREW; YAMAUCHI, CHIKAKO; XIAODONG GONG; MERCANTE, JOSEPH
- Abstract
We examine whether responses to survey questions about child care availability, quality and cost, aggregated at the local geographical level, have any explanatory power in models of partnered female and lone parent labour supply. We find evidence that partnered women and lone parents who live in areas with more reports of lack of availability, low quality or costly child care work fewer hours and are less likely to work than women in areas with fewer reported difficulties with child care.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; CHILD care costs; LABOR supply; WOMEN'S employment; HOUSEHOLD surveys
- Publication
Economic Record, 2011, Vol 87, Issue 276, p109
- ISSN
0013-0249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1475-4932.2010.00707.x