Mateřská sankce v České republice, její vývoj a zdroje

Motherhood Penalty in the Czech Republic: Its Evolution and Sources

Drahomíra Zajíčková and Miroslav Zajicek

Politická ekonomie, 2020, vol. 2020, issue 5, 569-604

Abstract: We use EU SILC data for the Czech Republic to estimate the size of the motherhood penalty for the period 2006-2017. We find out that adjusted motherhood penalty amounts to 11-15% in the period 2006-2008. At that time, the Czech Republic appeared to be comparable to countries such as Germany and the UK. However, the motherhood penalty effectively disappears after 2009 and the Czech Republic is now placed in the same group with Scandinavian countries, France and Belgium. Despite that, there are still many obstacles for mothers to increase their labour market participation, which translate mainly into wage penalties via the experience and labour intensity channels. The study also supports other general evidence from cross-country motherhood penalty comparisons, motherhood penalty being mostly a phenomenon of middle-educated, married women located outside large cities, employed in private industry and having more than one child.

Keywords: motherhood; motherhood penalty; gender; labour market; EU SILC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 J24 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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