The Wage Penalty for Married Women of Career Interruptions: Evidence from the 1970s and the 1990s

John Jones, Minhee Kim and Byoung Park

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, vol. 82, issue 4, 783-807

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to assess how the wage penalty for career interruptions by married women changed between the 1970s and the 1990s. We estimate the wage penalty for career interruptions using the work‐history model and PSID data. We use several approaches to control for various forms of endogeneity and selection bias. Our empirical results suggest that (i) the wage penalty for married women's career interruptions increased from 40.4% to 73.7% over the period, (ii) the ratio of the wage penalty for married women to that of married men also increased, from 1.33 to 2.43, (iii) Blinder–Oaxaca decompositions show that changes in education‐ or occupation‐specific wage penalties account for most of the wage penalty increase.

Date: 2020
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