that Muslims are the youngest when becoming pregnant for the first time. Protestants delay first pregnancy, but once being … pregnant, Protestants are more likely to carry their first pregnancy to term rather than having an abortion. With respect to … first pregnancy and its outcome, Catholics surprisingly compare to non‐religious women. Against the background of increasing …

This paper analyzes the wage development of mothers interrupting their careers, in comparison to the wages of men who … point in time. We use data from the German Socioeconomic Panel from 1984 to 2011, to show that wages and the financial …

tochildren in comparison to men's wages not facing a parental interruption. We estimate OLS regression models for different … importance of legal job protection on reentry wages. Furthermore, we show that wages and the penalty for maternity differs by the …

Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women’s employment rates but decrease their wages in case of …