Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

reunification, however, the employment rates of mothers with children requiring childcare have converged. This trend is accompanied … by a growing approval of maternal employment, especially in western Germany. However, differences in actual working hours … in attitudes and thus also in the full-time employment of mothers with young children. …

years among industrialized countries on the employment of mothers in Germany. Identification is based on spatial and … increase in employment is explained by the rise in part-time employment with relatively long hours (20-35 hours per week). We … do not find a change in full-time employment or lower part-time employment that is causally related to the childcare …

Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of …. Using administrative social security data, we confirm previous findings and show that the average duration of employment …

parents’ income or employment status, yet affect mothers’ incentives for labor supply and child care choices differently. Our …

the same age group and both are unconditional on the parents income or employment status. In this paper, we present a …

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal … feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer system which differs by employment state and number of children. To …