Pacelli, Lia; Pasqua, Silvia; Villosio, Claudia - In: Journal of Labor Research 34 (2013) 4, pp. 408-432
We use a large Italian employer-employee matched dataset to study how motherhood affects women’s working career in terms of labor force participation and wages. We confirm that the probability of exiting employment significantly increases for mothers of pre-school children; however, this is...