of leave from six to ten months and paying child-rearing benefits to all new mothers regardless of their employment … reduced wage growth by 1.5 percent over five years. In addition, for the second five-year period only, mothers experienced …

This paper investigates the effect of locus of control (LOC) on the length of mothers’ employment break after … differential appreciation of the career costs of longer maternity leave. Given the high level of job protection enjoyed by mothers …

two or more kids. Heterogeneity analysis suggests no causal effects of fertility on female employment among mothers with … less than college education and older mothers (born before 1978). Furthermore, we find evidence for the interaction of … estimates for highly educated mothers and for mothers born after 1977. …

countries. It is supposed to increase fertility, promote children's development and enhance mothers' labor market attachment. In … years among industrialized countries on the employment of mothers in Germany. Identification is based on spatial and … slots by one percentage point increases mothers' labor market participation rate by 0.2 percentage points. The overall …

care increases mothers’ employment rate and their working hours. To confirm the robustness of our results we conduct a …

This paper uses administrative data to investigate how a change in pension wealth affects a mother’s employment …

leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major parental leave reform on mothers' long-term earnings. The 2007 German … policy on long-run earnings of mothers, we use a difference-in-difference approach that compares labor market outcomes of … mothers who gave birth just before and right after the reform and nets out seasonal effects by including the year before …