This study investigates the employment and childcare use behaviour of migrant and non-migrant mothers in Germany. We … identify significant associations between migration background and employment probability, working hours, and childcare usage … potential endogeneity of childcare use. We do not find an additional contribution of a migrant background to mothers' use of …

This study explores the linkage between nine policy indicators of public childcare provision and maternal employment in …) percentage points. Thirdly, the existence of a legal claim on childcare from the age of one is associated with an increase in …

' participation in and time used for childcare? To answer this question, we merge data from the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS … from 1971 to 2005. Applying a selection model, we are estimating fathers' participation in childcare and the minutes per … day spent on childcare. We control for the following parental leave characteristics: duration of leave, amount of benefits …