Use and benefits of childcare services
A cooperation project between the Department of Sociology of Education and the youth welfare office (Jugendamt) of the city of Bern, examining the reasons for choosing childcare services and their consequences in terms of labour market related decisions.
The cooperation project between the Department of Sociology of Education and the youth welfare office (Jugendamt) of the city of Bern is concerned with the reasons as well as the consequences of choosing a daycare arrangement for preschool aged children. Using modern and adequate survey methods, the collected data will allow to reconstruct causally the individual decision-making criterias and the therewith associated consequences for one's employment status. The expected results can not only guide future policies for the design of childcare services in the city of Bern but also can they be used by private providers (nurseries) to further comply with their customers - that is children and their parents - needs.
