Compared with other European countries, the Italian labour market stands out for the low level of both female participation and fertility. In this paper we focus on the employment patterns of Italian mothers around the time of childbirth. Our hypothesis is that the difficulties involved in...

Inhalt: 1. Angebot und Nachfrage von weiblichen Arbeitskräften (Engelbrech, Gerhard: Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit von Männern und Frauen: Von der Arbeitsmarktkrise der 90er Jahre ins neue Jahrtausend. - Bach, Hans-Uwe: Erwerbstätigkeit, Arbeitszeit und Arbeitsvolumen von Männern und...

Fertility intentions are the most proximate determinants of actual fertility (e.g., Barber 2001; Bongaarts 1992) and inform us about directional trends (Hin et al. 2011; Testa 2014). They are transmitted across generations from parents to children (Fernandez and Fogli 2006). However, the literature on...