RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Motherhood Earnings Dip: Evidence from Administrative Records
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 169
OP 197
DO 10.3368/jhr.48.1.169
VO 48
IS 1
A1 Daniel, Fernández-Kranz
A1 Lacuesta, Aitor
A1 Rodríguez-Planas, Núria
YR 2013
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/48/1/169.abstract
AB Using Spanish Social Security records, we document the channels through which mothers fall onto a lower earnings track, such as shifting into part-time work, accumulating lower experience, or transitioning to lower-paying jobs, and are able to explain 71 percent of the unconditional individual fixed-effects motherhood wage gap. The earnings trajectories' analysis reveals that “mothers to be” experience important relative earnings increases several years before giving birth but this earnings' advantage falls right after birth, taking in average nine years to recover. Heterogeneity matters as most of the motherhood dip is driven by workers with permanent contracts.