Labour Supply and Childcare: Allowing Both Parents to Choose
构建并估计了澳大利亚双亲家庭的劳动力供给结构模型，同时考虑父母双方的劳动供给决策和儿童保育选择，发现母亲对自身工资变化的反应远大于父亲，政策提高母亲工资会显著增加其劳动参与和工作时间。
Abstract We develop and estimate a structural model of labour supply for two parent families in Australia, taking explicit account of the importance of childcare related variables. Our main contribution is to consider the labour supply decisions of both parents and their choice of childcare simultaneously. Labour supply decisions of mothers are found to be substantially more responsive to changes in their own wage (at intensive and extensive margins) than is the case for fathers, with minimal cross‐wage labour supply responses from fathers. Our results imply that policies increasing the wage of mothers will be associated with marked increases in labour market participation and in the working hours of mothers in the Australian labour market, with little offsetting decline in the labour supply of fathers.