This paper studies the causal effect of the timing of first birth on highly educated women's career outcomes using … effects might partly be explained by child spacing; motherhood delay induces women to have the second child more closely …

attributed to women's relative deficit with respect to human capital endowment, an equally large part stems from the fact that … inequality with respect to the returns to human capital in terms of wage which favours women. Nevertheless, women improved their …, mainly because women have a lower educational attainment than men but also because similar qualification levels yield lower …

attributed to women's relative deficit with respect to human capital endowment, an equally large part stems from the fact that … inequality with respect to the returns to human capital in terms of wage which favours women. Nevertheless, women improved their …, mainly because women have a lower educational attainment than men but also because similar qualification levels yield lower …

This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family … control for correlated individual-specific effects in both selection- and wage equations. We conclude that migrant women … receive lower wages than native women in the same labor market segment, and that this is mainly associated with their …