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 …

prevalence of fathers doing more than mothers or in splitting these tasks 50:50. Additionally we find that the increase in … mothers solely responsible for care work is greatest when the mother alone works from home. The division of care work is … perceived very differently by mothers and fathers, a difference that also increased during the pandemic …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are … much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these differences can be attributed to differences …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …