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Provision of Child Care and Female Labor Supply: Evidence from Japanese Household Level Data(in Japanese)

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  • SHIMIZUTANI Satoshi
  • NOGUCHI Haruko

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An increase in female labor force participation is indispensable to maintain sustainable economic growth in Japan, whose population is experiencing rapid aging and a decline in fertility. One remedy to these problems that is often proposed to be effective in stimulating the female labor supply is the provision of sufficient child care services. Surprisingly, however, there has been little micro-level empirical research in Japan on the relationship between child care provision and female labor supply. This study addresses this topic by taking advantage of a unique micro-level data set from households with children under age five in the metropolitan area around Tokyo. Our empirical results demonstrate that labor supply elasticity with respect to parents' payments for child care is estimated to be -0.2. Moreover, the elasticity of labor supply with respect to mother's wage rate is high at 1.4. On the top of these factors, female labor supply is stimulated by provision of child care leave, flexible or short working hours, and child care in the workplace. Our findings imply that a larger amount of labor supply is observed for females with higher wage rates and thus higher productivity, and that sufficient provision of child care services is an effective instrument to increase the labor supply of those female workers. Moreover, price policy for child care and welfare policy for the workplace are also significant aspects of female labor supply.

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  • SHIMIZUTANI Satoshi & NOGUCHI Haruko, 2004. "Provision of Child Care and Female Labor Supply: Evidence from Japanese Household Level Data(in Japanese)," ESRI Discussion paper series 089, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
  • Handle: RePEc:esj:esridp:089
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    1. Colm Harmon & Claire Finn & Arnaud Chevalier & Tarja Viitanen, 2006. "The economics of early childhood care and education : technical research paper for the National Economic and Social Forum," Open Access publications 10197/671, School of Economics, University College Dublin.

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