We analyze the relationship between parents' education and the time devoted to childcare
activities, with a focus on activities aimed at increasing the child's human capital. We use the …

This qualitative study aims to explain how social support enables independent professionals
to achieve work–life balance. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 50 independent …

This article analyses mothers' work decisions and their determinants during the first three
years of their children's life, based on data from a survey of 1219 mothers in the Barcelona …

This paper assesses the impact of financial incentives on working after retirement. The
empirical analysis is based on a large administrative individual career data set that includes …

The aim of this paper is to analyse cross-country differences in the maternal employment
patterns and the demand for formal and informal child care as interrelated decisions across …

ABSTRACT The Great Recession (2008–13) changed patterns in women's employment and
the use of formal and informal external childcare among mothers of young children in Spain …

In the context of more than a decade of economic expansion that ended in 2008, Spanish
municipalities were active in expanding their functions through vigorous policy-making in …

The literature on the gender wage gap and wage discrimination has exclusively analyzed
observed wage differences, ignoring inactive or unemployed individuals. In order to obtain a …

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar los determinantes de las decisiones de participación
laboral, convivencia en pareja y no maternidad de las mujeres en España. Para alcanzar …

This paper aims to analyze household decisions regarding the childcare of young children.
We present two specifications. The first one assumes a sequential decision process. Firstly …