. This study presents a detailed model for the du- ration of maternity leave in which young mothers can make a transition …- rived from large linked administrative individual labour market data from Germany for a period of three decades. We obtain …

the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity leave coverage. Effect heterogeneity is assessed by estimating ex … following childbirth, it does not level off to zero. The employment loss is lower for mothers with a university degree. It is … especially high for medium-skilled mothers with long prebirth employment experience. We find a significant reduction in the …

duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers' post-birth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after … childbirth. Using a regression discontinuity design, we first show that the leave extension caused mothers to significantly delay …-term sickness absence of returned mothers who gave birth before and after the change in leave legislation. Our findings suggest that …

dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a …

Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I estimate the wage gap between part-time and full-time employees in … Germany and the Netherlands, taking into account individual and job-specific characteristics and treating participation and … differentials between full-time and part-time employees, leads one to suppose that the existing wage gap in Germany may impede women …

-time and part-time employment of different skill groups of women in the UK and West Germany. The analysis is based on large …

When estimating the determinants of child care participation, the simultaneity in mothers' decision to work and in the … care use accounting for the endogeneity of mothers' labor supply by applying an instrumental variables approach. This … strongly connected to mothers' decision to work after childbirth and vice versa. Based on the German Socio-economic Panel …

mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … characteristics appear to affect both the birth and the employment decisions in a different way in France and Germany. Some of the …