We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit …

By investigating how locally available early childhood education and care quality relates to maternal employment … employment status and work hours changes, respectively. In East Germany, mothers with a child aged under three years who lived in … negative association of child-teacher-ratios with maternal employment was marginally significant. For mothers with older …

birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects. …

This paper investigates the effect of locus of control (LOC) on the length of mothers’ employment break after … return to employment more quickly than women with an external LOC.We find that this effect is particularly pronounced in jobs …

Despite the increasing incidence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are studied rarely. I …, long part-time spells may cause financial drawbacks for women, because experience in part-time employment generates lower …