workplace policy, namely childcare support, affects the well-being, working time, and caring behavior of mothers with young … satisfaction and job satisfaction. In particular mothers who worked limited hours before the introduction, possibly due to … if mothers are career-orientated. In comparison, flexible work schedules, another family-friendly policy, only affect job …

workplace policy, namely childcare support, affects the well-being, working time, and caring behavior of mothers with young … satisfaction and job satisfaction. In particular mothers who worked limited hours before the introduction, possibly due to … if mothers are career-orientated. In comparison, flexible work schedules, another family-friendly policy, only affect job …

Germany'-Study for 2010 and 2011 (N=3,301 mothers) with regional structural quality data. We used regression models of … employment status and work hours changes, respectively. In East Germany, mothers with a child aged under three years who lived in … negative association of child-teacher-ratios with maternal employment was marginally significant. For mothers with older …

mothers and fathers and analyzes whether gender gaps in occupational status are more extreme for immigrant populations. Using … between mothers’ and fathers’ probabilities of employment in the highest status jobs is shrinking over time in Germany …, particularly for immigrant mothers, Germany’s gender gaps in professional occupations are consistently larger than gaps in the US. [...] …

A lack of adequate childcare can delay mothers' return to the labor market after childbirth. This paper examines … = 411) in corporative-conservative western Germany with mothers in former socialist eastern Germany (n = 528) shows that … mothers return to work sooner if they are surrounded by kin. But kin do not provide support for maternal employment in eastern …

reunification, however, the employment rates of mothers with children requiring childcare have converged. This trend is accompanied … remain. Mothers in the east work full time markedly more often compared to mothers in the west. However, women in younger age … in attitudes and thus also in the full-time employment of mothers with young children. …

Expanding childcare is often considered as a suitable way to enhance employment opportunities of mothers with young … set of scenarios of increasing subsidized childcare slots and mothers' employment. For a variety of European welfare … increased mothers' employment should be well targeted. The expenditures for additional childcare slots can to a large extent be …