Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers … around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only …

We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by …

identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can … wage. The results provide evidence that mothers are willing to sacrifice a significant fraction of their wage to reduce …

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

This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a … 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 …

concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found … with regard to mothers ́mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …

not by changes in family income or father's labor force participation. …

Public child care is expected to assist families in reconciling work with family life. Yet, empirical evidence for the …