This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 30, The Family Gap in Pay: Evidence from seven industrialised countries by Susan Harkness and Jane Waldfogel, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/CASEpaper30.pdf

Considerable cross-sectional evidence has highlighted the lower employment rates and earnings amongst disabled people in Britain. But very little is known about the progression of disabled people in employment. This study uses data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to examine the labour market...

In this paper we use microdata on employment and earnings from a variety of industrialised countries to investigate the family gap in pay - the differential in hourly wages between women with children and women without children. We present results from seven countries: Australia, Canada, the...