Beblo, Miriam; Bender, Stefan; Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
We analyze the wage effects of employment breaks of women entering motherhood using a novel within-firm matching …. Using an administrative German data set we investigate three different matching procedures based on information two years … before birth: (1) exact matching on individual characteristics, (2) propensity score matching and (3) a combined procedure of …