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Title: Women's Cost of Child Care Breaks in Britain, Germany and the United States
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Gangl, Markus Ziefle, Andrea |
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Women's Cost of Child Care Breaks in Britain, Germany and the United States Presented: Montreal, QC, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 2006 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): British Household Panel Survey (BHPS); Career Patterns; Child Care; Cross-national Analysis; Discrimination, Sex; German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP); Labor Market Demographics; Labor Market Studies, Geographic; Motherhood; Wage Effects Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The paper uses harmonized panel data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to address cross-national variation in the wage penalty associated with mothers' work interruptions due to child care. We establish significant and permanent wage losses due to child care breaks in all three countries under study, yet wage losses for mothers in Germany are less than half the U.S. figures. The key factor behind this result is the fact that women's post-birth mobility into more mother-friendly jobs generates significant wage cost to Ameri-can mothers, whereas, particularly among German mothers, job shifts are far less frequent and when occurring, typically associated with smaller wage losses. Nevertheless, child care breaks carry a significant wage penalty due to stigma effects in all three countries under study. Also, the total wage cost women are prepared to accept for childrearing is remarkably similar in the three countries. |
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Gangl, Markus and Andrea Ziefle. "Women's Cost of Child Care Breaks in Britain, Germany and the United States." Presented: Montreal, QC, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 2006. |