The authors investigate recent patterns in mental health at the workplace across 15
European countries using three waves of the European Working Conditions Survey. Their …

This paper investigates the effects of public child care availability in Italy in mothers' working
status and children's scholastic achievements. We use a newly available dataset containing …

BACKGROUND The demographic challenge Europe is facing due to long-term low fertility,
accompanied by pronounced economic uncertainty, indicates the need for adequate policy …

Women with children tend to earn lower hourly wages than women without children—a
shortfall known as the 'motherhood wage gap'. While many studies provide evidence for this …

We aim to provide an explanation for the combination of the relatively low female
participation rates and lowest‐low fertility levels in I taly. Starting from the assumption that …

This study estimates the effect of employment protection legislation on wages, exploiting the
1990 Italian reform that introduced unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees. We …

This paper investigates the contribution of gender differences in job mobility to the
emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian labour market. We show that over the first …

O objetivo deste estudo foi realizar uma revisão da literatura investigando a relação entre
maternidade e trabalho. Revisando-se estudos publicados entre 2002 e 2009, foram …

This paper investigates the link between family‐friendly policies and women's employment
after birth of the first child in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Japan in the …

Does the provision of after-school care promote maternal employment and thus help to
foster gender equality in labor supply? We address this question by exploiting variation in …