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Mothers' Human Capital and Childcare in Britain

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  • Heather Joshi
  • Hugh Davies

    (Social Statistics Research Unit, The City University, and Department of Economics, Birkbeck College)

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Childcare may affect the earnings of mothers, not just by enabling them to take employment while using it, but also by conserving human capital and increasing earnings at later stages of the mother's life. This paper simulates the lifetime earnings of a 'typical' British mother under a variety of childcare regimes. Childcare which continues into the years of schooling is particularly valuable. For a woman who changes her labour force participation behaviour as a result of the availability of childcare, the resources generated are shown to exceed the resource costs of the childcare, and the revenue gain to the exchequer may exceed the costs of 100 per cent subsidy.

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  • Heather Joshi & Hugh Davies, 1993. "Mothers' Human Capital and Childcare in Britain," National Institute Economic Review, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, vol. 146(1), pages 50-63, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:niesru:v:146:y:1993:i:1:p:50-63
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