"This paper estimates the impact of fertility on mothers' labour supply in Australia, using exogenous variation in …

The paper documents employment and wage gaps, which arise between mothers and childless women, for a set of 28 European … gap in employment. The impact of the leaves depends, however, on childcare availability: long maternity leaves combined … with high childcare coverage lead to greater employment gap than when the coverage is low. The results do not prove that …

This paper estimates the impact of fertility on mothers' labour supply in Australia, using exogenous variation in …

This paper estimates the impact of fertility on mothers' labour supply in Australia, using exogenous variation in …

challenge of the sustainability of economic growth. It is being recognised that a sustainable rise in the fertility rate is …, research into the reasons for the decline in the fertility rate and the role of public policy in promoting fertility gain … momentum. There is growing evidence that social and economic policies do have an important role to play in raising fertility …