This paper analyzes the impact of expansions in leave coverage on mothers' labor market outcomes after childbirth. The …

mothers with young children and females without children. The second step of the analysis entails four different measures with … inequality, more concentrated wage bargaining, and higher rate of unionization, mothers are relatively more penalized in monetary …

Mothers tend to receive lower wages than comparable childless women. This "motherhood wage gap" has been reported in … the gaps associated with the total number of children are mostly explained by the loss of mothers' human capital during … child-related career breaks, the gaps associated with one child are predominantly driven by mothers' choice of jobs and …