non-married cohabiting parents. This effect results from a reduced risk of single parenthood among women who gained from … the reform are consistent with hypotheses related to the improved financial situation of new mothers after the reform and …

We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit … replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid benefits for up to one year. The reform generated winners and losers with … heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform speeds up the labor market return of both groups of mothers after benefit …

We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit … replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid benefits for up to one year. The reform generated winners and losers with … heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform speeds up the labor market return of both groups of mothers after benefit …

We study the short, medium, and long run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit … replaced by an earnings related transfer, which paid benefits for up to one year. The reform generated winners and losers with … heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform sped up the labor market return of all mothers after benefit expiration …

We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit … replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid benefits for up to one year. The reform generated winners and losers with … heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform speeds up the labor market return of both groups of mothers after benefit …

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers … differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low … employment differences as East German women with low earnings potentials appear to adopt West German low employment patterns over …