women's employment afterchildbirth. Our three sample countries provide a range of family leavepolicy regimes. The United …This paper uses microdata from the United States, Britain, and Japan toexamine the effects of family leave coverage on … States had no national family leave legislationprior to the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993, but …

This paper tests whether the so-called ‘reach of the market’ helps to explain ‘why Europe’ and ‘why north …-western Europe’. By looking at grain markets from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century, this study concludes that the … neither a concomitant nor an effect of the Industrial Revolution, but indeed a plausible determinant for the rise of Europe …