participation and fertility. In this paper we focus on the employment patterns of Italian mothers around the time of childbirth. Our … of the low female employment rate in Italy. Data from the 2002 Italian Birth Sample Survey show that about 20 per cent of …

per week. We found a corresponding increase in part-time employment of 2 percentage points for all minimum wage workers …

To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained … in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors. We get a relationship in which employment rises with growth and … permits to measure retrospectively the contributions of each of the variables to employment inflections since the mid-eighties. …

To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained … in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors. We get a relationship in which employment rises with growth and … permits to measure retrospectively the contributions of each of the variables to employment inflections since the mid-eighties …

per week. We found a corresponding increase in part-time employment of 2 percentage points for all minimum wage workers …

We study three necessary conditions for work sharing to increase employment. First, there must exist a negative long …-run relation between working time and employment. Second, hours per worker must be exogenous with respect to wages and employment …. Third, policy makers must be able to influence actual hours per worker. We formulate a theoretical model for employment …