Household Labour Supply in Sri Lanka for Urban Young Couple with Pre-school Children

This research note focuses on the labour supply decision in Sri Lanka of parents with the presence of pre-school children. For this study, 200 households with at least one pre-school child were surveyed. Women’s non-market time does not depend on their husband’s wage; but both housework and child ca...

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Published inSouth Asia economic journal (Institute of Policy Studies) Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 323 - 338
Main Author Premaratne, S.P.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New Delhi, India SAGE Publications 01.09.2011
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Adults
Child care
Child care services
Children
Children & youth
Females
Households
Housework
Labor force
Labor force participation
Labor supply
Parents & parenting
Preschool children
JEL: J14
Labour supply
household labour decision
JEL: J13
child care
JEL: J22
collective model
JEL: D01
unitary model
female labour
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Summary:This research note focuses on the labour supply decision in Sri Lanka of parents with the presence of pre-school children. For this study, 200 households with at least one pre-school child were surveyed. Women’s non-market time does not depend on their husband’s wage; but both housework and child care of other adults—particularly female adults—respond positively to an increase in the wife’s labour force participation. The decision to buy formal child care is affected by the age of children, cost of day-care centres, household income, types of occupation and level of education and quality of child care. Quality child-care services increase female labour force participation. Moreover, if child care is more affordable, more mothers would participate in the labour force. Governments can embrace this argument.
ISSN:1391-5614
0973-077X
DOI:10.1177/139156141101200207