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Title: The Mommy Track Divides: The Impact of Childbearing on Wages of Women of Differing Skill Levels
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Ellwood, David T. Wilde, Elizabeth T. Y. Batchelder, Lily |
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The Mommy Track Divides: The Impact of Childbearing on Wages of Women of Differing Skill Levels RFS Working Paper, New York, Russell Sage Foundation, January 2009. Also: https://www.russellsage.org/publications/category/working-papers Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Keyword(s): Fertility; Maternal Employment; Motherhood; Wage Differentials This paper explores how the wage and career consequences of motherhood differ by skill and timing. Past work has often found smaller or even negligible effects for high skill women. This paper finds the opposite. Wage trajectories diverge sharply for high scoring women after (but not before) they have children, while there is little change for low skill women. There is some evidence that the costs of childbearing for high skill women are reduced by delaying children. Factors such as remaining in the same job and keeping interruptions short reduce the costs to women, but costs remain high for high scoring women. Men show far less impacts. As a result it appears that the lifetime costs of childbearing, especially early childbearing are particularly high for skilled women. These differential costs of childbearing may account for the far greater tendency of high skill women to delay childbearing or avoid it altogether. |
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Ellwood, David T., Elizabeth T. Y. Wilde and Lily Batchelder. "The Mommy Track Divides: The Impact of Childbearing on Wages of Women of Differing Skill Levels." RFS Working Paper, New York, Russell Sage Foundation, January 2009. |