This paper uses administrative data to investigate how a change in pension wealth affects a mother’s employment …

same time depending on whether women are regarded in first line as mothers or workers. In Germany, the male breadwinner … done to investigate causal effects of the reform on the employment rates of mothers. The results reveal that the mothers … giving birth under the new reform start significantly earlier working than mothers bearing a child under the old reform, but …

The paper documents employment and wage gaps, which arise between mothers and childless women, for a set of 28 European …