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Nsiah, Christian DeBeaumont, Ronald Ryerson, Annette |
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Motherhood and Earnings: Wage Variability by Major Occupational Category and Earnings Level Journal of Family and Economic Issues 34,2 (June 2013): 224-234. Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10834-012-9323-2 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Earnings; Maternal Employment; Motherhood; Occupations; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Prior research has indicated that women with children earn less than their childless counterparts. In addition, recent research has found that the motherhood wage penalty may be most severe for low-income earners. Using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979), we test two hypotheses. First, are there occupational differences in the motherhood wage penalty? Second, are there occupational differences in the relative wage penalty experienced by low and high wage mothers? Our results indicated that mothers in sales occupations are penalized at a significantly higher rate than mothers in non-sales occupations, while mothers in blue-collar occupations were penalized the least. Furthermore, the wage cost of motherhood was greatest amongst the highest earners in sales occupations. |
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Nsiah, Christian, Ronald DeBeaumont and Annette Ryerson. "Motherhood and Earnings: Wage Variability by Major Occupational Category and Earnings Level." Journal of Family and Economic Issues 34,2 (June 2013): 224-234.
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