We use data from Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden to examine whether part-time and intermittent work … during early motherhood leads to regular full-time work later. We find that in Sweden, by the time the first child is four … concentrated in the public sector in all four countries, it is relatively less concentrated there in Sweden. Our results emphasize …

We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical …