Beblo, Miriam; Bender, Stefan; Wolf, Elke - 2006
motherhood, since we find first births to reduce women?s wages by 16 to 19 percent, regardless of the matching procedure applied …We analyze the wage effects of employment breaks of women entering motherhood using a novel within-firm matching … approach where mothers? wages upon return to the job are compared with those of their female colleagues within the same firm …