benefits also reduce take-up of paid leave by mothers, lower the chances of having further children, and have no impact on … available to high-earning women after their first childbirth on subsequent within-couple earnings inequality. Lower benefit … amounts result in a reduced earnings gap that persists beyond the benefit period for at least nine years after the birth. The …

This paper examines the effect of the introduction of a 1982 maternity benefit program on childbearing, employment and … paid leave and a small cash payment at birth. We use individual-level panel data on birth, employment and marital status … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify …

The paper documents employment and wage gaps, which arise between mothers and childless women, for a set of 28 European … small children and the length of maternity and paid parental leaves are important for explaining the size of the motherhood … gap in employment. The impact of the leaves depends, however, on childcare availability: long maternity leaves combined …

Much research shows that breastfeeding provides short- and long-term health benefits for both mothers and their … children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or inhibit breastfeeding practices in Japan … mothers. Compared to mothers who leave their jobs after childbirth, mothers who return to work within a year after childbirth …

how the acceptance of the employment of mothers of pre-school children differs. Our aim is to find out how attitudes vary …. The country-specific ranking in terms of traditional attitudes towards employment of mothers with pre-school children is …Based on the Generations and Gender Survey this paper studies attitudes towards parental employment in 14 European …

Employment among mothers has been rising in recent decades, although mothers of young children often work fewer hours … former group displaying strong approval for part-time employment among mothers and fathers of very young children and the … than other women do. Parallel to this trend, approval of maternal employment has increased, albeit not evenly across groups …

not have children and not due to the wage penalty incurred by mothers. …We examine how much children and responsibilities related with them contribute towards the divergence of men's and …