The family gap in wages: What wombmates reveal

Marianne Simonsen and Lars Skipper

Labour Economics, 2012, vol. 19, issue 1, 102-112

Abstract: We shed new light on the effects of having children on hourly wages by exploiting access to data on the entire population of employed same-sex twins in Denmark. Our second contribution is the use of administrative data on absenteeism; the amount of hours off due to holidays and sickness. Our results suggest that childbearing reduces female hourly wages but the principal explanation is in fact mothers’ higher levels of absence. We find a positive wage premium for fathers.

Keywords: Fertility; Wages; Twins (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J24 J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (17)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092753711100100X
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
Working Paper: The Family Gap in Wages: What Wombmates Reveal (2009)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:labeco:v:19:y:2012:i:1:p:102-112

DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2011.08.006

Access Statistics for this article

Labour Economics is currently edited by A. Ichino

More articles in Labour Economics from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().