following childbirth, it does not level off to zero. The employment loss is lower for mothers with a university degree. It is … especially high for medium-skilled mothers with long pre-birth employment experience. We find a significant reduction in the … a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for …

mothers, the point estimates suggest large and statistically significant effects on employment and hours of work, and in … for fathers in two parent families, and only some limited and modest effects on mothers in two parent families. For single …

Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive …, mothers – post first childbirth – are increasingly switching from the private to the public sector and are also less likely to …

We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit … program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was … heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform speeds up the labor market return of both groups of mothers after benefit …

mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies …

choices led mothers to take, on average, 1-2 months less of leave. This decrease in leave duration, however, was not … accompanied by an employment increase of similar magnitude. To understand the absence of labor supply effects, we examine data on … few mothers indicate that they would start working if better access to formal childcare were available. Switching to the …

and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …

of short-time work since its emergence in Germany in the 1930s. It analyzes its effectiveness as a job preservation …

We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement …