identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can … wage. The results provide evidence that mothers are willing to sacrifice a significant fraction of their wage to reduce …

This study is the first to estimate mothers' marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its … identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can … wage. The results provide evidence that mothers are willing to sacrifice a significant fraction of their wage to reduce …

and on mothers' labour market outcomes. Much less is known about older mothers' employment and marriage patterns when the … nest is negatively associated with older mothers' marriage probability. There is scope for better targeting of both family … and retirement policies for older mothers during those critical years when adult children leave the parental nest …

mothers with young children and females without children. The second step of the analysis entails four different measures with … inequality, more concentrated wage bargaining, and higher rate of unionization, mothers are relatively more penalized in monetary …

provide evidence that mothers substitute working time with childcare to compensate for early disadvantages. We do not find any …