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Title: Understanding the "Family Gap" in Pay for Women with Children
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Waldfogel, Jane |
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Understanding the "Family Gap" in Pay for Women with Children Journal of Economic Perspectives 12,1 (Winter 1998): 137-156. Also: http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.12.1.137 Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men, Young Women Publisher: American Economic Association Keyword(s): Britain, British; Cross-national Analysis; Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Family Studies; Gender Differences; Japan; Japanese; Job Tenure; Leave, Family or Maternity/Paternity; Maternal Employment; Parenthood; Wage Differentials; Wage Equations; Wage Gap; Wages, Women; Work Experience Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The narrowing of the gender gap in pay in the 1980s and 1990s, following decades in which the gap between the hourly earnings of women and men held constant, has been one of the most notable trends in the labor market in recent years. The decline in the gender gap has been all the more remarkable because it occurred while other types of wage inequality were increasing. These recent trends in the gender gap and in wage inequality have been extensively studied. However, less attention has been paid to the "family gap"-the wage differential between women with and without children. Although much of the evidence on links between family policies and women's pay is speculative, there is one policy--maternity leave--where we now have more persuasive evidence. Recent research in the United States, as well as comparative research on Britain and Japan, suggests that maternity leave coverage may raise women's pay. This research tells a clear story as to how such an effect might operate maternity leave coverage, by raising women's retention over the period of childbirth, raises women's wages by increasing their levels of work experience and job tenure and allowing them to maintain good job matches. Thus, maternity leave, along with other family policies, may be an effective remedy for the family gap in pay. (Adapted from the article by CHRR.) |
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Waldfogel, Jane. "Understanding the "Family Gap" in Pay for Women with Children." Journal of Economic Perspectives 12,1 (Winter 1998): 137-156.
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