Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation

• Tác giả: Daniel Halim
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 305.43 Womens occupations
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2018
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 245504
• Chủ đề: 1. FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION; 2. GENDER; 3. LABOR MARKET; 4. PRESCHOOL; 5. WOMEN IN LABOR FORCE

Tóm tắt

Female labor force participation (FLFP) in Indonesia lags behind other countries in the region and has remained more or less unchanged since 1990. Descriptive evidence by the same authors points to unmet childcare needs as one constraint on FLFP. In this paper, we provide the first estimates of the impact of childcare availability on FLFP in Indonesia. Our findings suggest that access to public preschools leads to higher employment of mothers of age-eligible children, but access to private preschool does not. Specifically, an additional public preschool per 1,000 children raises employment of mothers of age-eligible children by 6.9 percentage points. This represents a 13.3 percent improvement from the average work participation at 52 percent.