Joshi, Heather; Paci, Pierella; Waldfogel, Jane - In: Cambridge Journal of Economics 23 (1999) 5, pp. 543-64
Data from two British cohort studies show that women with children have lower wages than childless women. We develop an innovative decomposition of this 'family gap'. The crude pay gap between mothers and childless women in their thirties was similar in 1978 and 1991, but low pay in part-time...