The cost of fair pay: How child care work wages affect formal child care hours, informal child care hours, and employment hours
Zusammenfassung
The debate on the effects of child care policies on household and individual behavior is substantial but lacks a discussion of the unintended consequences of rising wages in the child care work sector. To address this gap in the debate, the relation between rising pay and formal child care hours, informal child care hours, and employment hours is analyzed empirically with a case study on child care in Germany between 2012 and 2019. Among other findings, the evidence demonstrates that the consumption of formal child care hours of middle- and high-income households in eastern Germany correlates negatively with child care work wages, indicating price elasticity.
Schlüsselwörter
Distribution; Inequality; Family; Education; Labor and employment
Zitieren als
Löffler, V. (2024). The cost of fair pay: How child care work wages affect formal child care hours, informal child care hours, and employment hours. In German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) (Ed.), SOEPpapers: Vol. 1205.Details
Publikationstyp
Arbeitspapier / Working Paper
Begutachtet
Nein
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Jahr
2024
Fachzeitschrift
SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin
Band
12005
Herausgeber
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
Erste Seite
1
Letzte Seite
81
Anzahl der Seiten
81
Band
1205
Reihe
SOEPpapers
Sprache
Englisch
ISSN
1864-6689
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