 Is there a motherhood penalty? decomposing the family wage gap in ColombiaLuis Gamboa and Blanca Zuluaga () No 10288, Documentos de Trabajo from Universidad del Rosario Abstract: The aim of this paper is to provide an estimation and decomposition of the motherhood wage penalty in Colombia. Our empirical strategy is based on the matching procedure designed by Nopo (2008) for the case of gender wage gaps. This is an alternative procedure to the well-known Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method. The cross-section data of the Colombian Living Standard Survey allows us to decompose the wage gap in four components, according to the characteristics of mothers and non - mothers. We found that mothers earn, in average, 1.73% less than their counterparts without children and that this gap slightly decreases as the group includes older women. Taking into account that this procedure is sensitive to the set of variables included in the matching, several speci cations are tested. The main result of the paper is obtained when considering schooling as a matching variable. Once schooling is included, the unexplained part of the gap considerably decreases and turns non signi cant. Thus, we do not find evidence of wage discrimination against mothers in the Colombian labor market. Keywords: Family Wage Gap; Childbearing Costs; Female Wages. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:col:000092:010288 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Documentos de Trabajo from Universidad del Rosario Contact information at EDIRC. |
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