participation and fertility. In this paper we focus on the employment patterns of Italian mothers around the time of childbirth. Our … mothers who were working before childbirth, stop working one and a half years after delivery and that about 14 per cent … voluntarily decide to resign. The paper analyses the factors that most influence new mothers' unemployment risk after childbirth …

promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers … tend to enter on lower ranks than non-mothers. 37 percent of the gap can be explained by rank fixed effects and human …

promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers … tend to enter on lower ranks than non-mothers. 37 percent of the gap can be explained by rank fixed effects and human …