Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81524 
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Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 952
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
I examine if employment protection affects parental childcare. I find that a softer employment protection has a substantial effect on how parents use and divide paid childcare between them. The identification relies on a reform that made it easier for employers in Sweden to dismiss workers in small firms. I estimate that a softer employment protection reduces the total days of parental childcare in targeted firms, measured as total days of parental leave or temporary parental leave. Both a sorting effect and a behavioral effect can explain the reduced childcare. I also find evidence of a redistribution effect of paid parental childcare within households if only one partner was affected by the reform. I interpret the redistribution effect as a way of evading an external cost on the child.
Subjects: 
Employment protection
Parental childcare
Within family distribution
JEL: 
J13
K13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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