This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys … importance of distinguishing between extensive and intensive margin changes in both variables; consideration not only of women … of analysing changes across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over …

-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by …We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment – sibling gender composition – affects women …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and … part-time women are more satisfied with working hours than full-time women. Partnered women's life satisfaction is … is increased if they themselves are working full-time. This finding is consistent with the gender identity hypothesis of …

employment protection to workers with children younger than 6 who had asked for a shorter workweek due to family responsibilities … men and women, since there is a very gendered take-up, with only women typically requesting part-time work. After the law … was enacted, employers were 49% less likely to hire women of childbearing age, 40% more likely to separate from them, and …

Our goal in this paper is to focus on highly educated men and women and try to explore the trade‐offs between family … that family plays a crucial role as a source of gender differences in the labor market in Spain. By 2008, children are the …‐time. However, children do not seem to contribute to explain the observed gender wage gap (5%) between college men and women …

This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's job loss – the so-called added …

marital disruption on data from the nationally – representative 2009 Family and Social Subjects survey. We found that the … increasing presence of first mover migrant women (coming from Latin America and Eastern Europe) is associated with higher … separation risks among natives, especially for couples with lower human capital. Our findings add to our understanding of family …

This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and … parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by between 0.5 days per month (during the child's third year) and 0.85 days per … that the effect mainly stems from higher home commitment, which reduces women's labour market attachment and, in turn …