Women-friendly policies may have perverse effects on the wages of employed women and mothers in particular. Yet few … such wage responses. We assess if and how two decades of reforms of parental leave schemes in Germany have shaped changes … accumulation, wage losses for mothers remained stable in this first period. Conversely, we can no longer detect motherhood wage …

mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies …Das im Jahr 2007 eingeführte Elterngeld regt Väter dazu an, Elternzeit zu nehmen, indem es zwei Elterngeldmonate für … Väter reserviert. In der Studie wird untersucht, ob die Nutzung von Elternzeit durch den Vater die Zeit, die der Vater mit …

-three-year-olds in Germany is associated with shorter employment interruptions amongst West and East German mothers. The results indicate …How do institutional factors and their interaction with individual resources influence the length of mothers … labour market perspective, and concentrates on how institutional factors explain varying durations of mothers’ employment …

duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers' post-birth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after … childbirth. Using a regression discontinuity design, we first show that the leave extension caused mothers to significantly delay …-term sickness absence of returned mothers who gave birth before and after the change in leave legislation. Our findings suggest that …

I use the universe of tax returns in Germany and a regression kink design to estimate the impact of the benefit amount … benefits also reduce take-up of paid leave by mothers, lower the chances of having further children, and have no impact on …