Caring for children and dependants: Effect on careers of young workers

This background paper aims to give an overview of the effects that the lack of childcare and care facilities for other dependants has on the career choices and situation of young men and women in the labour market, with a particular focus on the effects of the crisis on the accessibility of those services. It includes an analysis of the data from Eurofound’s third European Quality of Life Survey of 2011 (EQLS), the 2013 European Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the 2011 Eurobarometer survey. It also makes reference to the main findings from recent studies and includes an outline of how the economic and budgetary effects of investing in childcarehave been estimated in Austria.

Eurofound: Caring for children and dependants: Effect on careers of young workers http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2013/44/en/1/EF1344EN.pdf

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