of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family composition and mothers' employment. We aim to …This chapter surveys recent literature on the drivers of mothers' labour supply in OECD countries. We present a number … 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 …), conducted between 1986 and 2016. The results show that although employment rates of mothers have increased across cohorts, the … 1979 in Austria. By following synthetic cohorts of mothers and childless women up to retirement age, we are able to study …

, the employment of mothers, and especially mothers with young children, is lower. This paper proposes a four …How does the structure of a country's childcare market influence maternal employment? Childcare markets vary across … countries, leading mothers to rely on various forms of care depending on what is available to them in both the public (state …

. We quantify the potential increases in the labour supply of mothers (at the extensive and intensive margins) in the case … significantly increased labour supply of mothers especially in countries like Hungary and Poland where the current share of formal … labour demand, the expected final employment effects will be less pronounced, but still positive. …

The Barcelona targets on childcare help increase women's labour-market participation and close the gender employment … targets, this paper estimates the impact on labour par- ticipation of mothers of alternative scenarios of formal childcare … availability and usage) would lead to significant increases in the labour supply of mothers (at the extensive and intensive margins …