contributes to the literature by analyzing, apart from the employment rate, the adjustment of agreed working hours and especially … Microcensus results in positive effects on the employment rate, as well as on agreed and preferred working hours by up to 20% of … care can tap labor market potentials beyond those of currently underemployed mothers. Moreover, conditional effects show …

facilitate their employment. -- Labor force participation ; China ; childcare ; eldercare ; migrants ; population census ; urban …

-cycle model of labor supply and fertility. I find that mothers with preschool-aged children value the flexible amenities self-employment …'s median lifetime earnings by 1.2%. Overall, my findings offer evidence that mothers value workplace flexibility and employment …While American women's employment rates fall in the years after they have a child, their self-employment rates do not …

their impact on voters' support of policies promoting maternal employment. I address the inherent endogeneity between … of policies promoting maternal employment. This indicates a direct effect of local institutions on voters' attitudes. I … additionally show that as public costs of the new facilities increase, support of additional policies promoting maternal employment …

their impact on voters' support of policies promoting maternal employment. I address the inherent endogeneity between … of policies promoting maternal employment. This indicates a direct effect of local institutions on voters' attitudes. I … additionally show that as public costs of the new facilities increase, support of additional policies promoting maternal employment …

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 …

's residential location. We use a simultaneous equations approach to estimate the employment and childcare decisions of mothers of … employment. We document this question further by focusing on the role of the provision of childcare services close to the family … recent literature, we find that, in a context where the female employment rate and the availability of childcare have …

employment and fertility among women, as well as long-run cognitive outcomes among children. A structural life-cycle model of … employment, fertility, and child care use is estimated using Norwegian administrative data. The estimation exploits a large …-scale child care reform, which provided generous cash transfers to mothers who did not use formal child care facilities. Combining …

This paper examines the effects of universal daycare on mothers' labor force participation, full-time employment, and … participation effects. For higher-educated mothers, participation effects diminish over time, whereas earnings effects prevail in …