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 … both short-term and long-term consequences of having a child. We consider employment participation as well as working time …

"This paper estimates the impact of fertility on mothers' labour supply in Australia, using exogenous variation in …

The paper documents employment and wage gaps, which arise between mothers and childless women, for a set of 28 European … gap in employment. The impact of the leaves depends, however, on childcare availability: long maternity leaves combined … with high childcare coverage lead to greater employment gap than when the coverage is low. The results do not prove that …

This paper estimates the impact of fertility on mothers' labour supply in Australia, using exogenous variation in …

This paper estimates the impact of fertility on mothers' labour supply in Australia, using exogenous variation in …