abstract: 'Using data from the Swiss Household Panel (1999-2012) and the German

  Socio-Economic Panel (1994-2010), this paper compares the impact of

  mothers'' education and her partners'' income on maternal employment

  within the second to the fourth year after childbirth in Switzerland and

  West Germany. The broadly similar institutional context in the two

  countries makes for a more controlled and narrower comparison. Around

  the turn of the millennium, both family-policy regimes did little to

  foster dual-earner families. However, they differed in their support for

  families'' caring role (familialistic policies), with West Germany being

  much more generous. It is expected that these familialistic policies

  widen the educational gap in maternal employment, by selectively

  encouraging less-educated mothers to stay at home. Moreover, they are

  also expected to lower the economic pressure on low-income families to

  have a second income, thus diminishing the impact of partners'' income.

  Results confirm this expectation only within the fourth year after

  childbirth but not within the years before. This is somehow surprising,

  as central country-differences with respect to familialistic policies

  refer to the first three years after childbirth.'
affiliation: 'Liechti, L (Corresponding Author), Univ Fribourg, Dept Social Sci, Fribourg,
  Switzerland.

  Liechti, Lena, Univ Fribourg, Dept Social Sci, Fribourg, Switzerland.'
author: Liechti, Lena
author-email: lena.liechti@gmail.com
author_list:
- family: Liechti
  given: Lena
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/14616696.2016.1258083
eissn: 1469-8307
files: []
issn: 1461-6696
journal: EUROPEAN SOCIETIES
keywords: 'Maternal employment; gender equality; gender-class intersection; family

  policy'
keywords-plus: 'GENDER INEQUALITY; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; MATERNAL EMPLOYMENT; DOMESTIC

  WORK; LABOR; PATTERNS; SWEDEN; IMPACT; PAID; OPPORTUNITIES'
language: English
month: FEB
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '70'
pages: 91-112
papis_id: 622e80e8ab608a48479206a7a0b774ef
ref: Liechti2017resourcerelatedinequ
times-cited: '1'
title: 'Resource-related inequalities in mothers'' employment in two family-policy
  regimes: evidence from Switzerland and West Germany'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000392851000005
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '31'
volume: '19'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2017'