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Title: The Motherhood Wage Penalty Revisited: Experience, Heterogeneity, Work Effort, and Work-Schedule Flexibility
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Anderson, Deborah J. Binder, Melissa Krause, Kate |
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The Motherhood Wage Penalty Revisited: Experience, Heterogeneity, Work Effort, and Work-Schedule Flexibility Industrial and Labor Relations Review 56,2 (January 2003): 273-295. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3590938 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University Keyword(s): Heterogeneity; High School Completion/Graduates; Human Capital; Mothers, Income; Skills; Wage Differentials; Wage Gap; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty; Wages, Women; Work Hours/Schedule This paper seeks an explanation for the well-documented wage disadvantage of mothers compared to women without children. An analysis of data from the 196888 National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women shows that human capital inputs and unobserved heterogeneity explain 5557% of the gap. Further analysis suggests that mothers tended to face the highest wage penalty when they first returned to work. A finding that medium-skill mothers (high school graduates) suffered more prolonged and severe wage losses than either low- or high-skill mothers casts doubt on the work-effort explanation for the wage gap, according to which women reduce work effort in response to childcare duties. The authors instead cite variable time constraints: high school graduates are likely to hold jobs requiring their presence during regular office hours, and are unlikely to gain flexibility by finding work at other hours or by taking work home in the evening. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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Anderson, Deborah J., Melissa Binder and Kate Krause. "The Motherhood Wage Penalty Revisited: Experience, Heterogeneity, Work Effort, and Work-Schedule Flexibility." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 56,2 (January 2003): 273-295.
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