The Motherhood Wage Penalty: A Varieties of Capitalism Approach

Erik Lundquist () and Hanna Eklööf ()

No 710, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: This paper aims to relate the issue of the Motherhood Wage Penalty to the institutional framework “Varieties of Capitalism.” Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we perform cross-national analyses on the discrepancy in wages between mothers with young children and females without children. The second step of the analysis entails four different measures with relevance to both the institutional framework and our applied gender focus. We find that when nations exhibit features in line with “coordinated market economies,” characterized by relatively stubborn employment protection, smaller degree of general inequality, more concentrated wage bargaining, and higher rate of unionization, mothers are relatively more penalized in monetary terms compared to “liberal market economies.” The results add valuable insight to the limited gender literature within the framework and propose follow-up questions for expanding the efforts of gendering the Varieties of Capitalism.

Keywords: Varieties of Capitalism; Motherhood Wage Penalty; Gender Economics; Institutional theory; Labor Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D02 J16 J31 J50 P10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58 pages
Date: 2017-07
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