The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of the extended parental leave in the return to work for mothers of … characteristics and fertility history from different countries and, consequently, under different parental leave regulations. Results … suggest that the right to long and paid leaves gives mothers the opportunity to remain at home with the child at a lower cost …

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 …

increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify …

fertility and infant mortality rate. …

demonstrate that the biases stem from conventional event studies pooling together first-time mothers of all ages, without … interpretation differ significantly depending on maternal age at birth. We show that younger first-time mothers experience larger …

women's wages, and consequently, to the formation of the gender wage gap. To derive the relative contribution of gender … not have children and not due to the wage penalty incurred by mothers. …

(SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers …This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel … and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we provide evidence for a positive delaying effect on wages. We further …

(SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers …This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel … and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we provide evidence for a positive delaying effect on wages. We further …