provider role and women staying at home and taking care of children. The employment of mothers was not a common practice, so … there are solid employment patterns of mothers, which change across cohorts for instance resulting in more part time …In the early half of the twentieth century in West Germany the male breadwinner model was dominant with men playing the …

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers …. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low …

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 pre-birth employment experience. We find a significant reduction in the … a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for …

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in …-oriented industries, however, experienced even stronger employment gains and lower unemployment. In the aggregate, we estimate that this … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …

Wir untersuchen die Auswirkungen des beispiellosen Anstiegs des internationalen Handels zwischen Deutschland und dem … Osten - China und Osteuropa - im Zeitraum 1988-2008 auf lokale Arbeitsmärkte in Deutschland. Anhand von administrativen … Gesamteffekt von etwa 493.000 zusätzlichen Jobs, welcher dazu beigetragen haben könnte, den Industriesektor in Deutschland zu …

Although many have expressed concern over whether generous welfare policies discourage the employment of single mothers … the employment incentive for low educated single mothers. We determine that single mother employment is largely driven by … the case even though much previous scholarship has examined the effects of social policy on women's and mothers' labor …

mothers in reunified Germany, 1992-2009. During this time, East and West Germany share similar family policies, yet, the … mothers have lived in western Germany prior to the birth of their first child, the more similar they behave to West German …-based similarities among mothers who grew up in the eastern part of Germany. These similarities between the mobile and immobile eastern …

immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on …