Childcare and women's employment decisions are intimately linked. I develop a dynamic model designed to analyse the … various life-cycle outcomes of women and men. Offering a 10 percent childcare subsidy expands the labour supply of single … women from lower-education backgrounds by 5.4 percent while married women, and higher-educated single women, respond much …

employment boom - contributed only marginally, if at all, to the rise in female labor supply. The increasing proportion of women … more women to participate in the labor market. We find: - that the increased number of women with higher education has … Dutch women is stronger than that of German women but that there is no evidence of a substantial increase in work …

substantially larger between married women and partnered lesbian women who specialize in market production (primary earners) than … between married women and partnered lesbian women who specialize in household production (secondary earners). Using a semi …. Finally, we illustrate that controlling for children significantly reduces differences between married women and secondary …

In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to … affecting their labor supply and wages in the United States. We find, as expected, that women who migrate from countries with … culture and norms in affecting immigrant women's labor supply, since the effect of source country female labor supply on …

especially for women with more than basic formal education. For those with lower education the welfare programs are shown to have …