The Great Recession had a devastating impact on labor force participation and employment. This impact was not unlike … unusual pattern of recovery in employment by race. The black employment-population ratio has increased since bottoming out in … 2010, while the white employment-population ratio has remained flat. This paper examines trends in labor force …

waves of Covid on three outcomes: employment, hours worked, and hourly wages. We find that the trifecta of being female in a … lower-skilled occupation and with school-age children is associated with lower employment, hours worked and wages in normal … major shocks like Covid, with that adjustment concentrated on the extensive margin of employment, and it is restricted to …

Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive …, mothers – post first childbirth – are increasingly switching from the private to the public sector and are also less likely to …

Previous research on maternal employment has disproportionately focused on married, college-educated mothers and … common employment patterns of American mothers over the first 18 years of maternity. About two-thirds follow steady patterns … examined either current employment status or postpartum return to employment. Following the life course perspective, we instead …