Human Capital Depreciation during Family-related Career Interruptions in Male and Female Occupations

Dennis Görlich and Andries de Grip ()

No 7, Research Memoranda from Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market

Abstract: Human Capital Depreciation during Family-related Career Inter¬ruptions in Male and Female Occupations This study investigates the relation between human capital depreciation during family-related career interruptions and occupational choice of women in the (West) German labour market. In contrast to other studies that do not explicitly focus on family-related career interruptions, we find that short-term human capital depreciation during these career interruptions is significantly lower in female occupations than in male occupations. This holds for both high- and low-skilled occupations. Our findings support the self-selection hypothesis with respect to occupational sex segregation, i.e. women might deliberately choose female occupations because of lower short-term wage penalties for family-related career interruptions. Moreover, we find that particularly men employed in high-skilled male occupations face large short-run as well as long run wage penalties when they have a family related career break.

Keywords: education, training and the labour market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007
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