studies the impact of the substantial change in Germany’s parental leave system on maternal employment. The aim of the reform … was to decrease birth-related maternal employment breaks by providing more generous parental benefits for a shorter period … childcare slots. Overall, I did not find significant changes in maternal employment during the first three years of motherhood …

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the … estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of child care and the wage rate on employment decision as well as the … decision to use paid child care among single mothers. The model distinguishes between the full-time and part-time employment …

exit employment - is still important among a subset of couples, but that the overall value of marriage as a risk …-sharing arrangement has diminished because of the greater positive co-movement of employment within couples. While positive assortative …

This paper analyzes whether there exists a causal relationship between parental employment and children's educational … on sibling differences and (ii) reverse causality by focusing on parents' employment when children are aged 0-3. We use … data from the German Socioeconomic Panel. Overall, we find little support that parental employment affects children …