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Locus of Control and Mothers' Return to Employment

Eva Berger and Luke Haywood

No 1586, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of locus of control (LOC) on the length of mothers’ employment break after childbirth. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), duration data reveals that women with an internal LOC return to employment more quickly than women with an external LOC. We find evidence that this effect is mainly related to differential appreciation of the career costs of longer maternity leave. Given the high level of job protection enjoyed by mothers in Germany, economic consequences of differences in this non-cognitive skill can be expected to be larger in other settings.

Keywords: Locus of Control; Non-cognitive skills; personality; maternal employment; female labor supply; survival analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 p.
Date: 2016
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-eur, nep-net and nep-neu
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