Partnered Women's Labour Supply and Child-Care Costs in Australia: Measurement Error and the Child-Care Price*.

• Autores: Robert Breunig, Xiaodong Gong, Anthony King
• Localización: Economic record, ISSN 0013-0249, Vol. 88, Nº. 0, 2012, págs. 51-69
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We show that measurement error in the constructed price of child-care can explain why previous Australian studies have found partnered women's labour supply to be unresponsive to child-care prices. Through improved data and improved construction of the child-care price variable, we find child-care price elasticities that are statistically significant, negative and in line with elasticities found in other developed countries.