직장보육시설과 여성의 고용안정

The paper aims at evaluating the effect of childcare center at workplace on female employment. Using the sample of female workers covered by the Employment Insurance and who gave birth between 2001 and 2007, the analysis finds that women with the access to childcare at workplace return to labor market after birth more often than those without it, and that the effect is nonlinear in the age of child. That is, the effect of childcare at workplace on return rate is not observed for the first 27 months since birth, and is estimated to be around 4%p for the period 27 months to 39 months and to be around 2%p for the following period until 48 months. Further, women with childcare centers at workplace tend to take parental leave more often and return to work more often than those without them, which suggests that childcare center at workplace and parental leave are complements. The nonlinear effect of childcare center at workplace over child's age is likely to reflect the substitutability between own care and market care and the demand for various education of preschoolers. The findings imply that the effective promotion of female labor supply requires the combination of various policy options customized to the age of the children.