domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior … show that the time allocations of women with pre-school children are highly sensitive to changes in wages and the costs of …

It is recognized that employment policies must grant flexibility to the working schedules to allow parents to reconcile … work flexibility on parental time with children. The analysis unambiguously shows that it allows parents to spend about 30 … percent more time with their children. The results can be generalized to Germany as a whole. It can be concluded that temporal …