, GSOEP for Germany, OSA for the Netherlands and HUS for Sweden.The reason for analysing and comparing four countries is an … the other three countries. Furthermorewe find part-time workers relatively better paid in Sweden and the Netherlands than … women in the other three countries. Similarly the probabilityof being self employed for men in Sweden is much higher than in …

We use data from Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden to examine whether part-time and intermittent work … during early motherhood leads to regular full-time work later. We find that in Sweden, by the time the first child is four … concentrated in the public sector in all four countries, it is relatively less concentrated there in Sweden. Our results emphasize …