This study investigates the employment and childcare use behaviour of migrant and non-migrant mothers in Germany. We … associated with a 6.3 % (5.9 %) lower probability of employment for mothers of youngest children under 3 years of age with … mothers' everyday practices, as expressed in their employment behaviour and the use of state-subsidized childcare for their …

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 …

mothers, the point estimates suggest large and statistically significant effects on employment and hours of work, and in … for fathers in two parent families, and only some limited and modest effects on mothers in two parent families. For single …

We study the short, medium, and long run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit … heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform sped up the labor market return of all mothers after benefit expiration …. Likely pathways for this substantial reform effect are changes in social norms and mothers' preferences for economic …

We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit … heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform speeds up the labor market return of both groups of mothers after benefit … effect are changes in social norms and mothers' preferences for economic independence. …

mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies …