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Household Labour Supply in Sri Lanka for Urban Young Couple with Pre-school Children

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  • S.P. Premaratne

    (University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Emails: premarat@econ.cmb.ac.lk, sppremaratne@yahoo.com)

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This research note focuses on the labour supply decision in Sri Lanka of parents with the presence of pre-school children. For this study, 200 households with at least one pre-school child were surveyed. Women’s non-market time does not depend on their husband’s wage; but both housework and child care of other adults—particularly female adults—respond positively to an increase in the wife’s labour force participation. The decision to buy formal child care is affected by the age of children, cost of day-care centres, household income, types of occupation and level of education and quality of child care. Quality child-care services increase female labour force participation. Moreover, if child care is more affordable, more mothers would participate in the labour force. Governments can embrace this argument.

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  • S.P. Premaratne, 2011. "Household Labour Supply in Sri Lanka for Urban Young Couple with Pre-school Children," South Asia Economic Journal, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, vol. 12(2), pages 323-338, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:soueco:v:12:y:2011:i:2:p:323-338
    DOI: 10.1177/139156141101200207
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    Keywords

    JEL: J13; JEL: J14; JEL: J22; JEL: D01; Labour supply; unitary model; collective model; child care; female labour; household labour decision;
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    JEL classification:

    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles

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