This paper investigates the impact of fathers' flexible working hours on their willingness to contribute to domestic work. We first hypothesize that fathers will contribute more if they have the possibility to work flexible hours. Second, fathers are assumed to contribute less if their female...

This paper examines the effect of an expansion of subsidized early child care on maternal labor market outcomes. It contributes to the literature by analyzing, apart from the employment rate and agreed working hours, preferred working hours. Using the legal claim for subsidized child care...

How parents respond to changes in the price of childcare is an important, though not fully understood, public policy question. Our paper provides newcomprehensive evidence on howa home care subsidy jointly affects maternal labour market outcomes, childcare choices, and children's development. We...

This study examines the short-term consequences for care-arrangements and resulting changes in well-being among parents, who were affected by the closure of schools and institutional child-care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. By applying multinomial logistic regression models to novel...

Wie andere Länder ist auch Deutschland bemüht, die Arbeitsmarktpartizipation von Müttern durch ein erhöhtes Angebot öffentlicher Kinderbetreuung zu steigern. Ob die letzten Kinderbetreuungsreformen von 2013 in dieser Hinsicht erfolgreich sind, ist eine offene Frage. Während von dem...

Fertility and female labour force participation are no longer negatively correlated in developed countries. Recently, the role of immigration has been put forward as a driving factor among others. Increased immigration affects supply and prices of household services, which are relevant for...