contributes to the literature by analyzing, apart from the employment rate and agreed working hours, preferred working hours. Semi … employment rate, as well as on agreed and preferred working hours. As agreed and preferred working hours adjust in line with each … other, expansion of early child care can tap labour market potentials beyond those of currently underemployed mothers …

affects mothers working in dependent employment. Hence, policy makers intending to increase mothers' labour supply should be …We analyse the effect of a mandatory kindergarten for four-year-old children on mothers' labour supply in Switzerland …. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find an increase of mothers' labour force participation. Since kindergarten …

attachment of mothers very moderately. The effects are driven by mothers earning less than the median annual work income of 15 …,706 CHF and by older mothers (>37). …

granting access to part-time employment to those mothers who want it. While the probability to return to work after childbirth …This paper studies how the statutory right to work part-time affects mothers' post-birth labor market outcomes and … does not increase the probability to return to work after childbirth significantly. However, mothers who gain the right to …