This paper compares the work attachment of French and German women after childbirth. Both fertility and employment of … mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … women. Furthermore, it proved essential to distinguish between part-time and full-time employment. Background …

reduction of the social assistance withdrawal rate and an earnings-related tax credit. The expected employment and fiscal … expenditures may be substantial, although the expected labour supply and employment effects of this reform are much smaller than is …. Furthermore, these employment gains come at the cost of a substantial expansion of public-works jobs. …

of family policy on the duration of the employment break is examined. One finding is that the expansion of the maximum …

compound procedure of estimation and calibration based on the 1998 wave of the German socioeconomic panel. We estimate a … estimation of collective models with taxation. …

differentials of part-time jobs, the model with endogenous wages predicts lower part-time employment than the standard neoclassical …

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this …