Supply and price of childcare and female labour force participation in the Netherlands

Labour

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages 171-209

  Wetzels, Cecile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; LABOR PARTICIPATION; LABOR SUPPLY; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745239262     PISSN: 11217081     EISSN: 14679914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2005.00326.x     Document Type: Article

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