Ideals or compromises? The attitude-behaviour relationship in mothers' employment

Steiber, Nadia; Haas, Barbara

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“…Mothers' personal work and care attitudes have been found to be important predictors of employment alongside cost-benefit considerations and national context factors, such as day-care coverage or costs (Schober, 2013;Steiber & Haas, 2009). At the same time, there is growing evidence that identities and employment decisions of mothers are influenced by institutional structures including family policies, labor market opportunities, and gender and care cultures (Kremer, 2007;Schober & Scott, 2012;Steiber & Haas, 2009;Stier et al, 2001). Before the German reunification in 1990, West German family, tax and labor market policies favored male breadwinner/female carer families.…”

Section: Institutional Moderators: Day-care Availability and Work-carmentioning

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“…Mothers' likelihood of employment depends on their education levels and wages as measures of their opportunity costs of time outside the labor market (Grunow et al, 2011;Grunow & Müller, 2012). Mothers usually are more likely to return to work as their youngest child grows older, the fewer children they have, when they are not living with a partner or when the partner has low earnings (Kreyenfeld & Hank, 2000;Steiber & Haas, 2009). In Germany, lone parents and social assistance recipients have had prioritized access to a day-care center place in some counties (Schober & Spiess, 2013).…”

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“…A large international economic and sociological literature has explored how availability and costs of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services impact on maternal employment. Results generally suggest positive, albeit sometimes small, associations of greater state-subsidized day-care provision (e.g., Del Boca & Vuri, 2007;Havnes & Mogstad, 2011 ;Pettit & Hook, 2005;Steiber & Haas, 2009;Uunk et al, 2005) and lower child care costs (Anderson & Levine, 2002;Blau & Currie, 2006;Fitzpatrick, 2012) with maternal employment.…”

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“…At the same time, the scarce provision of day-care may restrict mothers' choices if they need external care and thereby attenuate the influence of quality. Economic and sociological studies have frequently considered the importance of restricted access to non-parental care and work-care attitudes for maternal employment (e.g., Del Boca & Vuri, 2007;Steiber & Haas, 2009;Stier et al, 2001) but have given little thought to how this interacts with parental choices in terms of quality. We extend these studies by examining more in detail variations across population groups by children's age and context, which face varying day-care supply restrictions and hold different attitudes towards maternal employment and using formal care.…”

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Local Day-Care Quality and Maternal Employment: Evidence from East and West Germany

Schober

Spieß

2014

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. respectively. In East Germany, mothers with a child aged under three years who lived in districts with smaller day-care groups were more likely to be employed and to extend their work hours. InWest Germany, the negative association of child-teacher-ratios with maternal employment was marginally significant. For mothers with older children, day-care quality was unrelated to employment.

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Local Day-Care Quality and Maternal Employment: Evidence from East and West Germany

Schober

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2014

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“…A large body of international economic and sociological literature has explored how availability and costs of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services impact on maternal employment. Results generally suggest positive, albeit sometimes small, associations of greater state-subsidized day-care provision (e.g., Steiber and Haas, 2009;Uunk et al, 2005;Pettit and Hook, 2005;Havnes and Mogstad, 2009;Del Boca and Vuri, 2007) and lower child care costs (for overviews, see Wrohlich, 2011;Anderson and Levine, 2002;Blau and Currie, 2006;Fitzpatrick, 2012) with maternal employment. Observed effects imply differing strength between countries depending on the specific early education and care policy context and by the method of analysis.…”

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Day-Care Expansion and Parental Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Germany

Schober

Schmitt

2013

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. We apply fixed-effects models at the county level. We find that in regions with larger day-care growth mothers and fathers expressed greater satisfaction with the available child care. In West Germany, the daycare expansion was positively associated with an increase in maternal satisfaction with family life, health, personal income, and life overall, whereas fathers' subjective well-being was less affected. In East Germany, for mothers the associations with some domains were similarly positive but reached statistical significance only for maternal satisfaction with family life. The results suggest that the excess demand before the expansion in West and East Germany restricted maternal choice and well-being more than fathers'.

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Gendered Tradeoffs

Hook¹,

Li²

2020

The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy

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In this chapter we review the research linking national-level family policies on childcare services and parental leave to women’s labor market outcomes. We review the state of the literature in answering two primary questions: (1) Do generous family policies perpetuate gender inequality in the labor market? That is, do family policies have unintended consequences or promote women’s inclusion into the labor force at the expense of gender equality within it? (2) Do generous family policies promote gender equality for certain groups of women at the expense of other groups of women? In answering this second question we focus on how policies differentially affect women by social class. We conclude with directions for future research.

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Ideals or compromises? The attitude-behaviour relationship in mothers' employment

Cited by 86 publications

References 29 publications

Local Day-Care Quality and Maternal Employment: Evidence from East and West Germany

Local Day-Care Quality and Maternal Employment: Evidence from East and West Germany

Day-Care Expansion and Parental Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Germany

Gendered Tradeoffs

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