by women with household responsibilities, some members of parliament believed that the new hours may be "family friendly … could be argued that the policy did, indirectly, have a positive impact on gender equality in the labor market and, possibly …

The reconciliation of family and work is one of the "new social risks" contemporary welfare states are challenged to … address. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the roles of work and family in women's life trajectories … patterns, we investigate the possible link that exists between these work-family profiles up to the age of 50 and subsequent …

burden with respect to gainful employment and providing care. We propose a family working time model that incentivizes … fathers and – contrary to most conventional family policies – actively promotes the dual earner/dual carer paradigm. Combining … microsimulation and labor supply estimation, we empirically analyze the potential of the family working time model in the German …

-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters -- a first son increases fathers' work hours by …) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …