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Title: The Family Gap for Young Women in the United States and Britain: Can Maternity Leave Make a Difference?
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Waldfogel, Jane |
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The Family Gap for Young Women in the United States and Britain: Can Maternity Leave Make a Difference? Journal of Labor Economics 16,3 (July 1998): 505-545. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/209897 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Britain, British; Cross-national Analysis; Family Studies; Fertility; Leave, Family or Maternity/Paternity; Marital Status; Maternal Employment; NCDS - National Child Development Study (British); Re-employment; Wage Effects; Wages, Young Women In the United States and Britain, there is a 'family gap' between the wages of mothers and other women. Differential returns to marital and parental status explain 40-50 percent of the gender gap. Another 30-40 percent is explained by women's lower levels of work experience and lower returns to experience. Taking advantage of 'quasi experiments' in job-protected maternity leave in the United States and Britain, this article finds that women who had leave coverage and returned to work after childbirth received a wage premium that offset the negative wage effects of children. |
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Waldfogel, Jane. "The Family Gap for Young Women in the United States and Britain: Can Maternity Leave Make a Difference?" Journal of Labor Economics 16,3 (July 1998): 505-545.
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