. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences …We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers … substantial differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives …

Providing mothers with access to paid parental leave may be an important public policy to improve child and maternal … information on children's health, family background, mothers' pre-birth work histories and mothers' health behaviours during …

This paper analyzes the impact of expansions in leave coverage on mothers’ labor market outcomes after childbirth. The … focus is on Germany, a country that underwent several changes in maternity leave legislation since the late 70s. We identify …

examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following … weekly work hours of employed mothers of one-to-three year-old children by 6 to 9% and that their wage incomes may have risen …

data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for … identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

face (almost) identical environmental conditions. We find that treated mothers have a 4.9 percentage points (or 15 percent … the policy change. We also find that parental leave rules have a strong effect on mothers’ return-to-work behavior. Per … additional months of maximum parental leave duration, mothers’ time off work is reduced by 0.4 to 0.5 months. The effects of a …

. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of … mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium run, neither of benefit duration nor of job-protection duration. To understand … the relative importance (and interaction) of the two policy instruments in shaping mothers' return to work behavior, we …