This paper analyzes the impact of expansions in leave coverage on mothers' labor market outcomes after childbirth. The …

liberalization when mothers were 20 years old. We find a robust positive association between progressive beliefs among the … grandmothers' cohort and mothers' likelihood to work while having a small child (0 to 5 years old) relative to similar women …

, and working mothers are on a path toward a high-wage equilibrium, slow convergence can permanently lose earnings. We use … maternal leave exacerbates the shock which pleads against long leaves. Similarly, cash transfers to mothers via the income … effect on labor supply aggravate gender wage differences. By contrast, temporary subsidies to mothers' wages (possibly in the …

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

the increasing importance of non-wage benefits in total compensation packages. As hedonic wage theory suggests, mothers … might view health benefits as desirable and trade-off wages for health insurance. Thus, lower wages for mothers might …

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … childcare availability has positive and significant effects on both mothers' working status and children's language test scores …. The effects are stronger when the degree of rationing is high and for low educated mothers and children living in lower …