heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform speeds up the labor market return of both groups of mothers after benefit … effect are changes in social norms and mothers' preferences for economic independence …

To explore single mothers' labor market participation we analyze specific circumstances and dynamics in their life … identifying episodes of single motherhood and employment during life courses. Since family statuses of single mothers are … detailed view by analyzing single mothers' transition from not being employed to full-time or part-time work and vice versa …

-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the program is to improve the participants' economic self-sufficiency and family … welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany …

While the health benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and children are well known, breastfeeding may make it … difficult for mothers to return early to the labor market. Maternity and parental leave regulations have been designed to reduce …. Applying a difference-in-difference approach, it is shown that mothers who were not affected by the reform did not change their …

family life and labor market careers for mothers. In this paper, we combine different empirical strategies to evaluate the … employment effects of these policies for mothers in Germany. In particular we estimate a structural labor supply model and … parental leave benefits and subsidized child care leads to sizable employment effects of mothers …

same time depending on whether women are regarded in first line as mothers or workers. In Germany, the male breadwinner … done to investigate causal effects of the reform on the employment rates of mothers. The results reveal that the mothers … giving birth under the new reform start significantly earlier working than mothers bearing a child under the old reform, but …

This study investigated the effects of divorce on educational gaps in mothers' economic resources. The results shed new …, we estimated correlated random-effects models to examine educational gaps in divorce-related changes of mothers … in mothers' economic resources did not widen after divorce. Instead, we found partial support for the competing notion of …

participation of mothers with primary school children in the West German context of relatively low full-time employment rates. Using … employment probability of mothers with primary school children …

This study investigates how the duration of the work interruption and the labor market status of mothers upon their … Britain and West-Germany, this research also explores how extended leave entitlements for mothers influence the division of … results suggest that mothers increase their housework hours with every additional month of employment interruption. Mothers …

This study is the first to estimate mothers’ marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its … identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can … wage. The results provide evidence that mothers are willing to sacrifice a significant fraction of their wage to reduce …