preferences as arising from the non-compliance of mothers to the availability of grandparents and from preferences of grandparents … grandparental childcare on mothers' labour supply is positive, statistically significant and economically relevant. The effect is … stronger for lower educated mothers, with young children and living in the North and Centre. …

In this paper, I investigate employment behaviour of women one year after childbirth. Since the study is based on a … sample of mothers only, a corrective method for selection into motherhood has been applied. In the empirical work, I use the … indicate that Latin mothers are more likely to return to work and to report more hours of work than their German counterparts …

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 …. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences …

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 … way. The present paper deals with the question if and how the employment careers of West German women with at least one …

care market, we find that the availability of care is most consistently related to employment. However, the price and …

This research explores how different parental leave reforms in West Germany impacted on the time mothers and fathers in … couples spent on child care. I investigate indirect effects through mothers' labor market return decisions more in detail than … data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-2009). I estimate simultaneously the timing and extent of mothers' labor …

employment transitions of West German, East German and migrant mothers of pre-school children. The results indicate that West … work by spouses, kin and friends can facilitate mothers' return to full-time or part-time positions within the first six … German and migrant mothers return to work sooner if they have access to kin, and that kinship support is particularly …

women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation … effects: high educated non-mothers are persuaded by the informational treatments to increase their intended use of formal … child care (and to pay more); whereas low educated non-mothers to reduce their intended labor supply. These findings are …