The paper documents employment and wage gaps, which arise between mothers and childless women, for a set of 28 European … gap in employment. The impact of the leaves depends, however, on childcare availability: long maternity leaves combined … with high childcare coverage lead to greater employment gap than when the coverage is low. The results do not prove that …

employer to increase the working volume of mothers. Applying various impact evaluation techniques in an econometric analysis … volume of mothers who return back to work after giving birth. Furthermore, the usage of employer-supported childcare by … mothers with pre-school age children influences the amount of agreed and actual working hours positively. …

, the employment of mothers, and especially mothers with young children, is lower. This paper proposes a four …How does the structure of a country's childcare market influence maternal employment? Childcare markets vary across … countries, leading mothers to rely on various forms of care depending on what is available to them in both the public (state …