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Chutes and ladders : dual tracks and the motherhood dip
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Lacuesta, Aitor; … - 2010
Using rich panel data recently available from Spanish Social Security records, we find that a negative motherhood … return to their pre-birth (relative) levels. The study finds that heterogeneity matters as most of the motherhood penalty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315297
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Motherhood wage penalty in times of transition
Nizalova, Olena; Sliusarenko, Tamara - 2013
Motherhood is usually associated with lower wages due to a number of reasons such as career interruptions, potentially … fertility. Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey provides the data to estimate the motherhood wage penalty in Ukraine during … of first birth has an impact on the motherhood wage penalty. It is smallest for females with vocational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225824
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Early child development and parents' labor supply
Lafférs, Lukás; Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020
The impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the empirical literature. We combine an instrumental variable approach to account for the endogeneity of the development status with a model of non- random labor force participation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256358
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Parental leave reform and long-run earnings of mothers
Frodermann, Corinna; Wrohlich, Katharina; Zucco, Aline - 2020
Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of extended leave durations. In view of these potential trade-offs, many countries are discussing the optimal design of parental leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164550
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Mothers' job search after childbirth
Lafférs, Lukás; Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2021
We explore the impact of successful job search after childbirth on mothers' labor market careers. Using a bounding approach and administrative data, we find strong heterogeneity in the returns to leaving the pre-birth employer. Moving to a new employer after childbirth leads to an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596228
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Is there really a child penalty in the long run? : new evidence from IVF treatments
Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2024
Newly matched data on in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments are used to estimate the long-run consequences of children on the labor market earnings of women and men (often referred to as child penalties). We measure long-run child penalties in IVF-treated families by comparing the earnings of...
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The increasing penalty to occupation-education mismatch
Cassidy, Hugh; Gaulke, Amanda - 2023
College-educated workers in jobs unrelated to their degree generally receive lower wages compared to well-matched workers. Our analysis of data from the National Survey of College Graduates shows that although the rate of this mismatch declined only slightly (19% to 17%), the wage penalty...
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The incidence and wage penalty of overqualification : the case of Egypt
Fakih, Ali; Lizzaik, Zeina - 2024
The phenomenon of overqualification is becoming increasingly common across many countries. In this research study, the main objective is to examine factors that determine overqualification, the impact of overqualification on wages, and the earning differences between genders in the case of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015050846
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The gender gap in early career in Mongolia
Pastore, Francesco - 2009
Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of the fifty poorest countries in the world. This paper addresses the issue by taking advantage of a School to Work Survey (SWTS) on young people aged 15-29 years carried out in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903210
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The family gap in wages : what Wombmates reveal
Simonsen, Marianne; Skipper, Lars - 2009
We shed new light on the effects of having children on hourly wages by exploiting access to data on the entire population of employed same-sex twins in Denmark. Our second contribution is the use of administrative data on absenteeism; the amount of hours off due to holidays and sickness. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931347