Cross-sectional studies show that in West Germany women with different levels of educational attainment participate … theory assuming a rational behavior of women. Using retrospective life-course data from the IAB study ALWA, I find evidence … that women with different levels of educational attainment have different re-entry patterns also when taking the …

This paper analyzes the consequences of the spacing of births for women's subsequent labor income and wages. Spacing … births in longer intervals may allow women to re-enter the labor market between childbearing events, thereby avoiding …

This paper studies the causal effect of the timing of first birth on highly educated women's career outcomes using … effects might partly be explained by child spacing; motherhood delay induces women to have the second child more closely …

Even though women have been able to increase their participation in management positions to a small extent in recent … equality and work-life balance are seen as an option to reduce inequalities between men and women. However, there are … organisational measures may increase women's career opportunities or promote the assumption of management positions on a part …

immigration on labour supply and fertility of native women in the UK, with a focus on the role of immigration on household … working and child rearing among native women. …

migrant women in Germany. Considering the well-established evidence that immigrant women work less than natives, with statuses … market theory, and the less examined in German research cultural hypothesis. Migrant women's employment status is, in … be less reliable predictors of women's labor supply: higher education attained abroad is only marginally related to women …