policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper …, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …

Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some …

comparing single women with and without children, or comparing single mothers with different numbers of children, I show that … the only EITC reform associated with clear employment increases is the expansion enacted in 1993. The employment increases … and time, I show that the employment effects align closely with exposure to welfare reform and the business cycle. Single …

After decades of convergence, the gender gap in employment outcomes has recently plateaued in many rich countries … employment effects of motherhood in U.K. and U.S. data. We then provide evidence that women do not anticipate these effects. Upon … becoming parents, women (and especially more educated women) adopt more negative views toward female employment (e.g., they are …

teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is … her friends' mothers' choices when she was a teenager, and the interaction between the two. The empirical salience of this … distant she is (in terms of working hours) from the friends' mothers …

these expansions are correlated with employment and leave-taking for both mothers and fathers over this period. Our main … the CPS, we describe trends in parents' employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to … finding is that leave expansions have increased the amount of time that new mothers and fathers spend on leave, with effects …

production for boys is more adversely affected by a decrease in the mother's time input as a result of increasing employment …'s employment during her children's childhood has an asymmetric effect on the educational achievement of her own sons and daughters … about the implications of these asymmetric effects on the mothers' labor supply decisions and find supporting evidence in …

This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care … type of care chosen. Results indicate that single mothers are highly responsive to child care subsidies by increasing their … employment while moving from parental and relative care to center care in the process …