Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, Melinda; Walker, MaryBeth - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 2014
This paper uses unique administrative data to expand the understanding of the role women's intermittency decisions play … in the determination of their wages. We demonstrate that treating intermittency as exogenous significantly overstates its … impact. The intermittency penalty also increases in the education level of the woman. The penalty for a woman with a high …