Am 1. Januar 2007 wird das bisherige Erziehungsgeld durch das Elterngeld ersetzt. Danach erhalten Eltern, die zum Zwecke der Kinderbetreuung ihre Erwerbstätigkeit unterbrechen, im ersten Lebensjahr ihres Kindes Elterngeld in Höhe von 67 % des entfallenen Nettoerwerbseinkommens. Von dieser...

Untersuchungsgegenstand dieses Beitrags ist der Einfluss der regionalen Versorgung mit Kindertageseinrichtungen auf das Erwerbsverhalten von westdeutschen Müttern mit kleinen Kindern, die noch nicht schulpflichtig sind. Basierend auf den Daten des SOEP (1998) und zusätzlichen Informationen der...

Germany is known to have one of the lowest fertility rates among Western European countries and also relatively low employment rates of mothers with young children. Although these trends have been observed during the last decades, the German public has only recently begun discussing these...

This paper analyzes the influence of children's health and mothers' physical and mental wellbeing on female labor force participation after childbirth in Germany. Our analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, which enables us to measure children's health based on the...

This paper uses data from the European Community Household Panel surveys of 1994 and 1996 to study the association between changes in care-giving and changes in weekly work hours. Our sample comprises women aged 45-59 years who participated in the labour force in at least one of the two years...

By investigating how locally available early childhood education and care quality relates to maternal employment choices, this study extended the literature which has mostly focused on the importance of day-care availability or costs. We provided differentiated analyses by the youngest child's...

We use data from the 1996 wave of the European Community Household Panel to present and compare the weekly number of hours mothers of children less than 16 years of age reported looking after children in nine European countries in 1996. In addition, we explore to what extent cross-country...