This paper describes and compares transitions into employment of mothers of newborn children in several European countries. Although female labour participation has increased everywhere, women are still likely to interrupt their career, when they have a child, for a period of time longer than the basic maternity leave. Using data from ECHP, we select women who have a child during the survey and...

This paper investigates trends and changes in the structural composition of women’s weekly market hours in former West-Germany using aggregate time-series data from German micro census from 1957 until 2001. Aggregate weekly hours per working-age woman are decomposed into hours worked per employee – the intensive margin of adjustment – and into labor force participation – the extensive margin. T...

Churchill, Surgn.-Col. A. F., m.d., a.m.s., is brought on the Admtve. Medl. Staff of the Army, vice Surgn -Col. E. C. Markey, c B., who has reverted to the home establishment. Dated 22nd May 1895. Gallwey, Bde.-Surgn.-Lieut.-Col. M. M., M.D., A.M.S., to the Admtve. Medl. Staff of the Army, with the tempy. rank of Surgn -Col., vice Surgn.-Maj.-Genl A. A. Gore, M.D., appointed P. M. O., H. M.'s F...

In modern welfare states, family policies may resolve the tension between employment and care-focused demands. However these policies sometimes have adverse consequences for distinct social groups. This study examined gender and educational differences in working parents' perceived work-family conflict and used a comparative approach to test whether family policies, in particular support for ch...