Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Hoherz, Stefanie
Title: Maternity leave in the context of couples: the impact of both partners’ characteristics and employment experiences on mothers’ re-entry into the labour market
Abstract: This research focuses on re-entry for mothers after maternity leave. The empirical analysis focuses on the first twenty-two years of post-reunification Germany, using proportional hazards models. Results show that the re-entry into part-time employment is primarily affected by the mother’s own resources and former career, the return to full-time work is more linked to the partner’s resources. This behaviour is especially prevalent in families where the mother has a higher earning potential than the father, a group having the highest re- entry chances for mothers, especially into full-time employment. The results concerning experiences of unemployment for the male partner show that mothers try to compensate uncertainties with increased labour force participation.

Creation-Date: 20140321
Number: 2014-15
Publication-Status: published
File-URL: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/files/working-papers/iser/2014-15.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:ese:iserwp:2014-15