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Does Childcare Support Stimulate Women’S Employment?, Masako Kamada, Kazuyasu Kawasaki
Does Childcare Support Stimulate Women’S Employment?, Masako Kamada, Kazuyasu Kawasaki
Japanese Society and Culture
A childcare support policy was implemented as part of gender equality and countermeasures to the falling birthrate in Japan. One of the childcare support policies was provided preschool service free of charge in October 2019.
In this paper, we analyze whether this childcare cost reduction policy was effective or not. Especially, we focus on whether this childcare support policy contribute to accelerate female labor force participation or not. As a result of our analysis, we show childcare cost reduction policy is ineffective of female labor force participation.