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The paper documents employment and wage gaps, which arise between mothers and childless women, for a set of 28 European …
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Recent scholarship suggests welfare state interventions, as measured by policy indices, create gendered trade-offs wherein reduced work–family conflict corresponds to greater gender wage inequality. The authors reconsider these trade-offs by unpacking these indices and examining specific...
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Women-friendly policies may have perverse effects on the wages of employed women and mothers in particular. Yet few … accumulation, wage losses for mothers remained stable in this first period. Conversely, we can no longer detect motherhood wage … penalties for women affected by the later reform. Shorter career breaks and increased work hours may have benefited new mothers …
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We consider and attempt to understand the gender wage gap across 24 EU member states, all of which share the objective of gender equality, using 2007 data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. The size of the gender wage gap varies considerably across countries and...
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While the gender pay gap between men and women in Germany remains at 18 percent, this figure is not the same for all employees. There are, for example, major differences by age. Beginning at age 30, the gender pay gap increases sharply and remains constantly high at 20 percent until retirement....
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