We investigate the role of employment in explaining changes in the mental health of single mothers compared to … partnered mothers and single childless women during the period of welfare reform in the UK. We employ a time allocation … health for all women but the association was not statistically significant for single mothers. Mental health inequalities …

This chapter surveys recent literature on the drivers of mothers' labour supply in OECD countries. We present a number … of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family composition and mothers' employment. We aim to … play in households' decision regarding mothers' participation in the labour force? We aim to summarise the main results …

We compare employment rates of mothers and childless women over the life course across the birth cohorts from 1940 to … 1979 in Austria. By following synthetic cohorts of mothers and childless women up to retirement age, we are able to study …), conducted between 1986 and 2016. The results show that although employment rates of mothers have increased across cohorts, the …

countries, leading mothers to rely on various forms of care depending on what is available to them in both the public (state …, the employment of mothers, and especially mothers with young children, is lower. This paper proposes a four …-fold classification scheme based on the type of "penalty" that women experience in the labor market as mothers. It then links each penalty …

This research examines re-entry into the labour force for mothers after maternity leave. The empirical analysis focuses …-entry into part-time employment is primarily affected by the mother’s own resources and former career, the return to full … concerning experiences of unemployment for the male partner show that mothers try to compensate uncertainties with increased …

labour supply and employment impacts of publicly-funded paid leave on mothers in the first year post-partum. The almost … continuing in the same job and under the same conditions. Further new evidence shows that disadvantaged mothers - low income …