Hotz, Vincent Joseph; Johansson, Per-Olov; Karimi, Arizo - 2018
We consider the role that workplace attributes play in accounting for the divergence in the careers of women and men …, with the onset of parenthood. We exploit matched employer-employee data from Sweden to characterize a model-based index of … the penalty to wage rates earned by women with their transition to motherhood (i.e., the motherhood penalty), but it would …