contributes to the literature by analyzing, apart from the employment rate and agreed working hours, preferred working hours. Semi …-parametric difference-in-differences estimation based on survey data from the German Micro Census results in positive effects on the … employment rate, as well as on agreed and preferred working hours. As agreed and preferred working hours adjust in line with each …

granting access to part-time employment to those mothers who want it. While the probability to return to work after childbirth … is unaffected, the law has a positive effect on maternal employment and labor income in the long-run. The results suggest … that the increase in the employment rate is due to a lower probability to drop out of the labor market after the temporary …

out to obtain empirical evidence of the employment profile according to gender, quantify the extent to which self-employment … or salaried employment is associated with certain characteristics (age, education, marital status and economic sector … Office (INE). Results shows that significant gender differences in employment status are seen when this is disaggregated and …