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 …

policies; and, at the micro level, whether the probability of returning to work and career prospects have increased for mothers …

Since the millennium, the labor market participation of women and mothers is increasing across European countries … well as their involvement in care work, is relatively unchanging, meaning that employed mothers are facing an increased … fathers and mothers to both work in extended part-time employment. It provides a benefit in form of a lumpsum transfer or …

Germany'-Study for 2010 and 2011 (N=3,301 mothers) with regional structural quality data. We used regression models of … employment status and work hours changes, respectively. In East Germany, mothers with a child aged under three years who lived in … negative association of child-teacher-ratios with maternal employment was marginally significant. For mothers with older …

reunification, however, the employment rates of mothers with children requiring childcare have converged. This trend is accompanied … remain. Mothers in the east work full time markedly more often compared to mothers in the west. However, women in younger age … in attitudes and thus also in the full-time employment of mothers with young children. …

Expanding childcare is often considered as a suitable way to enhance employment opportunities of mothers with young … set of scenarios of increasing subsidized childcare slots and mothers' employment. For a variety of European welfare … increased mothers' employment should be well targeted. The expenditures for additional childcare slots can to a large extent be …