Pacelli, Lia; Pasqua, Silvia; Villosio, Claudia - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2007
We analyse the effects of motherhood on women’s working career using WHIP, a database that records individual work histories together with childbearing events. We investigate two main issues: the career penalty and the wage penalty (better known in the literature as family wage gap). We focus...