The wage costs of motherhood: which mothers are better off and why

Ludmilla Nivorozhkina and Anton Nivorozhkin

No 200826, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "In this paper we analyze how motherhood affects women's wages. Using a dataset from Russia we adopt a matching technique to account for possible selection effects. Our findings indicate that mothers tend to suffer a moderate wage penalty. We also confine our analysis to sector-specific effects and find that the negative effect may primarily be attributed to mothers working in the public sector. The differences across sectors may be explained by considerable job flexibility and a system of promotion based on work experience which has been adopted in the public sector." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Russland; Einkommenseffekte; Elternschaft; erwerbstätige Frauen; Lohndiskriminierung; Lohnhöhe; Mütter; staatlicher Sektor; 2003-2003 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 J13 J18 P35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2008
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