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Motherhood and women's earnings in Anglo-American, Continental European, and Nordic countries
Sigle-Rushton, Wendy; Waldfogel, Jane - 2006
The earnings of mothers make up an important, but difficult to quantify, component of parental expenditures on children. This paper compares the long-term earnings of women with children, women without children, and men. The study conducts separate analyses for less educated, moderately...
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The Family Gap in Pay: Evidence from Seven Industrialized Countries
Harkness, Susan; Waldfogel, Jane - 1999
In this paper we use microdata on employment and earnings from a variety of industrialized countries to investigate the … that there is a good deal of variation across our sample countries in the effects of children on women's employment. We … family gap in pay across countries is not primarily due to differential selection into employment or to differences in wage …
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