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 … years old 80 percent of mothers are working full-time if 25 hours is counted as full-time work, but only 30 percent if a 35 …

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 …

current and future labour supply. It covers Canada (in particular the province of Québec), Finland, Sweden and the United …