The employment behavior of mothers is strongly influenced by labor market regulations and certain institutional …

the importance of childcare related variables. We find working mothers do not increase their working hours when hourly … wages increase, indeed, they are more likely to reduce their hours. The major inducement for working mothers to increase … at increasing working hours amongst British mothers of pre-school children may need to focus on the quality as well as …

We investigate the role of employment in explaining changes in the mental health of single mothers compared to … partnered mothers and single childless women during the period of welfare reform in the UK. We employ a time allocation … health for all women but the association was not statistically significant for single mothers. Mental health inequalities …

This chapter surveys recent literature on the drivers of mothers' labour supply in OECD countries. We present a number … of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family composition and mothers' employment. We aim to … play in households' decision regarding mothers' participation in the labour force? We aim to summarise the main results …

of mothers in the target group, but only weak evidence of an increase in contracted hours of work. However, both … adjustments are only short term following the reform. When we consider subgroups of mothers more closely, we find substantial … heterogeneity in the affected outcomes and the timing of these effects. In particular, when we exclude mothers on job …

labour supply and employment impacts of publicly-funded paid leave on mothers in the first year post-partum. The almost … continuing in the same job and under the same conditions. Further new evidence shows that disadvantaged mothers - low income …

that temporal flexibility has a U-shaped relationship with the wage rates of both fathers and mothers, and that temporal …