This paper reveals that providing mothers with a higher maternity leave allowance raises
their probability of becoming self-employed after childbirth. Using administrative data from …

The level of compensation during maternity leave varies significantly across countries, yet
previous research provides limited insights on its consequences. In this paper, I assess how …

Contractionary parental leave policy reforms decrease the time mothers can stay at home
after giving birth. This might discourage them to become an entrepreneur. Exploiting a …

This paper analyzes the timing between self-employment entry and first child birth among
Swedish women, using register data for the cohort of women born between 1970 and 1975 …

Using data on all businesses started by mothers of young children in Sweden between 2000
and 2014, we explore which factors are associated with entrepreneurship among mothers …

The main objective of this paper is to analyse the extent to which self-employment in
Sweden has an impact on the use of parental leave. Our results show that during the child's …

This paper analyzes how statutory entitlements to maternity or parental leave affect female
entry into self-employment after childbirth. For our estimations we use comprehensive panel …

Previous studies, mostly from Anglo-Saxon countries, find a positive correlation between the
presence of young children in the household and self-employment probabilities among …

The need to resolve work–family conflict has long been considered a central motive for
women's pursuit of entrepreneurship. In this paper, we propose and empirically uncover a …

Recent work suggests that both self-employed women and men represent a heterogeneous
group with regard to their occupational profile. For instance, in the US and Southern Europe …