Während das unterschiedliche Erwerbsverhalten von Männern und Frauen häufig Gegenstand von Diskussionen ist, wird ein Vergleich des Erwerbsverhaltens von Frauen mit und ohne Kind nur selten untersucht. In diesem Artikel werden die Unterschiede bzgl. des Arbeitsumfangs von Frauen mit und ohne...

Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This paper documents long-run trends in female employment, working hours and relative wages for a wide...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the main determinants of the participation decision of females in the labour force in Turkey. Turkey is a particularly important case as, unlike in many other countries, female labour force participation has shown a decreasing trend in the last 50 years....

This paper aims to estimate the effects of maternity leave legislation in women’s wages and employment in Brazil. We analyze the impact of an increase in the leave period, which was raised from 12 weeks to 120 days, as prescribed by the Federal Constitution of 1998. According to the...

"Produktion und Reproduktion in einer Gesellschaft, ihre Arbeits- und Sozialordnung sowie die gesamtgesellschaftlichen Arrangements in Familie und Erwerbsarbeit basieren auf einem mehr oder weniger explizit formulierten 'Gesellschaftsvertrag' (social contract). Der jeweilige 'social contract'...

This investigation draws on detailed, longitudinal sample survey data to examine declining fertility in East Germany. Since the unification of Germany in 1990, the fertility rate in East Germany has been halved-falling well below that of West Germany, which was already among the lowest in the...

This paper uses data from the European Community Household Panel surveys of 1994 and 1996 to study the association between changes in care-giving and changes in weekly work hours. Our sample comprises women aged 45-59 years who participated in the labour force in at least one of the two years...

It is a well-established fact that mothers' labour force participation reacts differently todifferent types of family benefits. It is also already well-known that cultural and religiousfactors have an impact on their labour force participation. But does the labour forcereaction to family...