Maternal Employment: Enabling Factors in Context

Giulia M Dotti Sani and Stefani Scherer
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Giulia M Dotti Sani: Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy
Stefani Scherer: University of Trento, Italy

Work, Employment & Society, 2018, vol. 32, issue 1, 75-92

Abstract: Maternal employment is still below the overall EU recommended level of 60% in many European countries. Understanding the individual, household and contextual circumstances under which mothers of children of different ages are likely to be employed is crucial to develop strategies capable of increasing maternal employment. This article takes a comparative approach to investigating the characteristics associated with maternal employment in the presence of children aged 0–2, 3–5, 6–9 and 10–12 years. We model the probability of being employed full-time, part-time or being a homemaker using EU-SILC data (2004 to 2007) from Germany, Italy, Norway and the United Kingdom – four countries belonging to different gender and welfare regimes. The results indicate that individual and household characteristics are more relevant in determining mothers’ employment in countries where the state is less supportive towards maternal employment: Italy and to a lesser extent Germany and the UK – for the period observed.

Keywords: children’s age; Europe; maternal employment; micro–macro interaction; work–family reconciliation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017016677944

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