Incentive or obstacle? The use of parental leave of immigrant mothers • Ann-Zofie Duvander, Stockholm University ; Eleonora Mussino, Stockholm University

Parental leave and career interruption of mothers after childbirth in Hungary and France • Zsuzsanna Makay, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute

Parental leave benefits and breastfeeding in Germany: effects of the 2007 reform • Anita Kottwitz, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) ; Anja Oppermann, University of Cologne ; C. Katharina Spieß, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

Changes in mothers’ uptake of parental leave in Poland • Katarzyna Kocot-Górecka, Warsaw School of Economics ; Irena E. Kotowska, Warsaw School of Economics