We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children. Among families with at least one child we identify the...

Neben Erwerbslosen nehmen auch sonstige Nichterwerbstätige häufig eine Beschäftigung auf. Diese Personen werden jedoch gewöhnlich nicht bei der empirischen Bestimmung des Arbeitsangebotes erfasst. Ein Grund liegt in der Schwierigkeit ihrer Erhebung, da sie üblicherweise in keinen Registern...

This paper provides evidence that low private contributions to highly subsidised day care constrain mothers from working longer hours. We study the effects of a reform that abolished day care fees in Germany on parental labour supply. The reform removed private contributions to highly subsidised...

This paper analyzes the influence of children's health and mothers' physical and mental wellbeing on female labor force participation after childbirth in Germany. Our analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, which enables us to measure children's health based on the...