This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men’s earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian … after having children. The simple conditional correlation between children and earnings is positive. When only variation …

This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian … after having children. The simple conditional correlation between children and earnings is positive. When only variation …

-the-job training investment and wages are endogenously determined. We reveal a small wage differential at the beginning of women …The aim of this paper is to explain the growing wage differentials between men and women during their working careers …’s career, followed by a larger wage differential; this is partly due to a lower level of human capital investment by women and …

impact of short parental leave on mothers' employment status and subsequent wages, with a special focus on the part … wages of first mothers at the global level. However, for part-time paid leave takers, the reform increases the employment … rate but decreases the subsequent wages. The wages remain lower two years after child birth, especially for the most …

-typed occupational preferences using data for British children aged between 11 and 15. We anchor agency in observable psychological … attributes associated with children's capacity to act in the face of constraints. We focus on two such attributes, motivation and … affect children's occupational ambition, and 2) parental sex-typical behaviors, from which children learn which occupations …

There is a high degree of sex-typing in young children's occupational aspirations and this has consequences for adult … agency in this process. This study analyzes the determinants of sex-typed occupational aspirations amongst British children … scope of children's occupational aspirations, 2) children's imitation of parental occupations, and 3) children's learning of …

Subject of this paper is the investigation of wage developments of women interrupting their careers for giving birth … tochildren in comparison to men's wages not facing a parental interruption. We estimate OLS regression models for different … importance of legal job protection on reentry wages. Furthermore, we show that wages and the penalty for maternity differs by the …

restricted to women and have diminished over time for them. We are able to explain about five-eighths of the differential between …

We shed new light on the effects of having children on hourly wages by exploiting access to data on the entire … amount of hours off due to holidays and sickness. Our results suggest that childbearing reduces female hourly wages but the …