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Holding the Pencil or Buying Paint: Parental Childcare Versus Children’s Need for Extra Income. The Case of Belgium, Denmark and Spain

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  • Joris Ghysels

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This article addresses the influence of child characteristics on couples’ decision-making regarding employment and parental childcare. Through simultaneous equation modeling we are able to separate earnings from care motives in this decision-making process. An empirical exercise on Belgian data illustrates how the earnings motive counteracts the care motive and causes a rise in the probability of a full-time job following an increase of the number of children. However, replication on Danish and Spanish data also suggests that a country’s incentive framework provides important limits to couples’ decision-making. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2005

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  • Joris Ghysels, 2005. "Holding the Pencil or Buying Paint: Parental Childcare Versus Children’s Need for Extra Income. The Case of Belgium, Denmark and Spain," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 3(3), pages 269-289, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:reveho:v:3:y:2005:i:3:p:269-289
    DOI: 10.1007/s11150-005-3458-y
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    1. Euwals, Rob, 1999. "Female Labour Supply, Flexibility of Working Hours, and Job Mobility in the Netherlands," IZA Discussion Papers 83, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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    1. Chris Klaveren & Joris Ghysels, 2012. "Collective Labor Supply and Child Care Expenditures: Theory and Application," Journal of Labor Research, Springer, vol. 33(2), pages 196-224, June.

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      time allocation; household production; labor supply; childcare; D13; J22;
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      • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
      • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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