Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of … much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these differences can be attributed to differences …

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

relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place … on two individual-level data sets yield large and positive effects of public child care on maternal employment. A set of … placebo treatment tests corroborate the validity of our identification strategies. -- child care ; maternal employment …

domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior …

patterns. First, medium-run effects on mothers’ employment probability are positive, significant and large, for some subgroups …Increasing mothers’ labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a … costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to become mothers and return to the labor force rapidly. Using a sharp …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of the extended parental leave in the return to work for mothers of … suggest that the right to long and paid leaves gives mothers the opportunity to remain at home with the child at a lower cost …

estimate the causal impact of subsidized childcare availability on Hungarian mothers' labor market participation around the 3rd …-in-differences approach using a comparison group of mothers with children aged 4-5 to control for seasonal effects (parent selection, child …

employment effects of these policies for mothers in Germany. In particular we estimate a structural labor supply model and … parental leave benefits and subsidized child care leads to sizable employment effects of mothers. … family life and labor market careers for mothers. In this paper, we combine different empirical strategies to evaluate the …

patterns. First, medium-run effects on mothers' employment probability are positive, significant and large, for some subgroups …Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a … costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to become mothers and return to the labor force rapidly. Using a sharp …