The Wage Penalty for Motherhood in Spain (2009-2017): The Role of the Male Partner’s Job Characteristic

Ainhoa Herrarte Sánchez and Paloma Urcelay ()
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Paloma Urcelay: Banco de España

Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, 2022, vol. 241, issue 2, 27-57

Abstract: Exploiting microdata from the Living Conditions Survey, and applying the coarsened exact matching algorithm to select a treatment and a control group of comparable women, we analyse the motherhood wage penalty in Spain from 2009 to 2017, with special attention to the effect of the male partner’s job characteristics. We find that mothers of children 0-3 years old suffered a penalty in their hourly wages of around 4.2%, which significantly increased when their partner was self-employed. Moreover, we only detect a wage penalty for high-educated women and for those who work in medium and large firms.

Keywords: Motherhood wage penalty; Motherhood wage gap; Work-family balance policies; Gender equality; Motherhood protection. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J31 J71 J78 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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