Is there a motherhood wage penalty for highly skilled women?

Autor/inn/en	Gafni, Dalit; Siniver, Erez
Titel	Is there a motherhood wage penalty for highly skilled women? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Gibt es eine Lohnbenachteiligung für hochqualifizierte Mütter?
Quelle	In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy, 15 (2015) 3, S. 1353-1380 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1935-1682
DOI	10.1515/bejeap-2013-0191
Schlagwörter	Kinderzahl; Mutter; Einkommensunterschied; Einkommenseffekt; Arbeitsplatzwechsel; Lohndiskriminierung; Erwerbsunterbrechung; Auswirkung; Geschlechtsspezifik; Hochschulabsolvent; Hoch Qualifizierter; Israel
Abstract	"We use a unique data set of all individuals who graduated from universities in Israel during the period 1995 - 2008 in order to investigate the widening of the gender wage gap during the years following graduation. It is found that the main explanation is having children, rather than skills or academic background. The results show that each additional child reduces a woman's wage by 6.6%, and increases a man's wage by 3.4%. Furthermore, we examine three channels that may explain the motherhood penalty: periods of non-employment, a shift to the public sector and lower-paying firms and the timing of births. Having children increases a woman's period of non-employment while decreasing a man's, and each month of non-employment due to maternity leave reduces a woman's wage by 1.0%, while non-employment reduces a man's wage by only 0.6%. Mothers tend to shift from the private to the public sector and from higher-paying to lowerpaying firms, which offer a more flexible and more convenient work environment, at the cost of a lower salary. Finally, a delay in having children increases a woman's wage while having little, if any, effect on a man's wage. Furthermore, controlling for this variable reduces the estimated motherhood penalty." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2015/4