of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family composition and mothers' employment. We aim to …This chapter surveys recent literature on the drivers of mothers' labour supply in OECD countries. We present a number … play in households' decision regarding mothers' participation in the labour force? We aim to summarise the main results …

labour supply and employment impacts of publicly-funded paid leave on mothers in the first year post-partum. The almost … continuing in the same job and under the same conditions. Further new evidence shows that disadvantaged mothers - low income …

after the reform implementation. Only for high-income mothers, the reform produced a significant decrease in the employment … studies the impact of the substantial change in Germany’s parental leave system on maternal employment. The aim of the reform … was to decrease birth-related maternal employment breaks by providing more generous parental benefits for a shorter period …

A widespread finding among studies from the US and the UK is that maternal employment is correlated with an increased …. As evidence for Germany is still scarce, the purpose of this study is to identify the effect of maternal employment on … mechanisms that might explain this relationship. In order to address the selection into maternal full-time employment, we use an …

-time employment is primarily affected by the mothers own resources and former career, the return to full-time work is more linked to … than the father, a group having the highest re- entry chances for mothers, especially into full-time employment. The …This research focuses on re-entry for mothers after maternity leave. The empirical analysis focuses on the first twenty …

This research examines re-entry into the labour force for mothers after maternity leave. The empirical analysis focuses …-entry into part-time employment is primarily affected by the mother's own resources and former career, the return to full … higher earning potential than the father, a group having the highest re-entry chances into full-time employment. The results …

following childbirth, it does not level off to zero. The employment loss is lower for mothers with a university degree. It is … especially high for medium-skilled mothers with long prebirth employment experience. We find a significant reduction in the … a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for …

following childbirth, it does not level off to zero. The employment loss is lower for mothers with a university degree. It is … especially high for medium-skilled mothers with long prebirth employment experience. We find a significant reduction in the … a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for …

reasons: first, it has low rates of female employment and little formal child care provision, and second, it has undergone … mothers are retirement eligible have a 11 percent higher probability of being in the labor force than those whose mothers are … of flexible, low-cost child care, could have unintended negative consequences for the employment rates of women with …

exogenous temporal and spatial variations in school schedules with a panel of individual mothers' employment between 2002 and …Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force … participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the …