Does the Gap in Family-friendly Policies Drive the Family Gap?
Segregation of the labour market into a family-friendly and a non-family-friendly sector implies that women self-select into sectors depending on institutional constraints, preferences for family-friendly working conditions and expected wage differences. We take this sector dimension into account and find a severe penalty after birth-related leave in the non-family-friendly sector, so that women who would be affected by this penalty self-select into the family-friendly sector. The penalty is a combination of a large human-capital depreciation effect, a child penalty and no recovery. Copyright The editors of the "Scandinavian Journal of Economics", 2004 .
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2004
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Authors: | Nielsen, Helena Skyt ; Simonsen, Marianne ; Verner, Mette |
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Scandinavian Journal of Economics. - Wiley Blackwell, ISSN 1467-9442. - Vol. 106.2004, 4, p. 721-744
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