This paper discusses several approaches to examining the relationship between child care and mothers' labor supply. The … focus is on child care for children aged 0-3, because this is a critical period for working mothers and their children and …

exploit the setting of German reunification. A state socialist country, East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to … Germans through migration and commuting. A comparison of East and West German mothers on both sides of the former Inner German … border within the same commuting zone shows that culture matters. Indeed, East German mothers return to work more quickly and …

This paper examines the labour supply disincentives of the Income Support system among single mothers with no … withdrawal of Income Support for single mothers whose youngest child turns 16. At this cut-off age, barely ineligible mothers … pronounced labour supply disincentives of the income support policy. -- Single mothers ; Income Support ; Labour supply …

percentage points on mothers' work participation. Our results are robust to different econometric specifications. We also find …