“…Although there are numerous studies examining the determinants for mothers’ return to the labor market in Germany (e.g., Blossfeld, Drobnič, & Rohwer, 2001; Drasch, 2013; Elsas, Wölfel, & Heineck, 2013; Hoherz, 2014; Jacob & Kleinert, 2014), only very few of them look at the role the partner plays in women’s reentry into employment (Blossfeld et al, 2001; Hoherz, 2014; Jacob & Kleinert, 2014). These last few studies focus on the effects of a partner’s labor market or financial resources, however, and there are virtually no studies to date—to the best of the author’s knowledge—that examine partners’ social support for women’s labor market reentry (for an exception, see Höhne, 2007, but here, too, support in the empirical analysis is only measured indirectly through a partner’s resources).…”