Early child care and maternal employment: empirical evidence from Germany
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Keywords
Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; Erwerbsquote ; Kinderbetreuung ; Mütter ; Arbeitsvolumen ; Arbeitszeit ; Arbeitszeitwunsch;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2019-01-21 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EUR-2019-01-21 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-LMA-2019-01-21 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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