Nivorozhkina, Ludmilla; Nivorozhkin, Anton - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"In this paper we analyze how motherhood affects women's wages. Using a dataset from Russia we adopt a matching technique to account for possible selection effects. Our findings indicate that mothers tend to suffer a moderate wage penalty. We also confine our analysis to sector-specific effects...