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Diversity in Family Formation pp 89–113Cite as

Labour Force Participation of Mothers

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Since the Second World War the labour force participation of women has increased across Western Europe. More recently, this development has been accompanied by the substitution of full-time jobs by part-time jobs. Characteristic of both trends is that women with children, who seldom used to go out to work, now are increasingly likely to have a paid job. In spite of this, the institutional diversity of the various member states of the European Union causes essential differences in the pattern of paid labour by women.

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    Fred Deven

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Callens, M., van Hoorn, W., de Jong, A. (2000). Labour Force Participation of Mothers. In: de Beer, J., Deven, F. (eds) Diversity in Family Formation. European Studies of Population, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9512-4_5

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