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The Wage Penalty for Motherhood in Spain (2009 2017): The Role of the Male Partner's Job Characteristics
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Abstract Exploiting microdata from the Living Conditions Survey, and applying the coarsened exact matching algorithm to select a treatment and a control group of comparable women, we analyse the motherhood wage penalty in Spain from 2009 to 2017, with special attention to the effect of the male partner’s job... view more
Exploiting microdata from the Living Conditions Survey, and applying the coarsened exact matching algorithm to select a treatment and a control group of comparable women, we analyse the motherhood wage penalty in Spain from 2009 to 2017, with special attention to the effect of the male partner’s job characteristics. We find that mothers of children 0-3 years old suffered a penalty in their hourly wages of around 4.2%, which significantly increased when their partner was self-employed. Moreover, we only detect a wage penalty for high-educated women and for those who work in medium and large firms.... view less
Keywords
Spain; motherhood; wage difference; work-life-balance; affirmative action; maternity protection
Classification
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Income Policy, Property Policy, Wage Policy
Free Keywords
motherhood wage penalty; motherhood wage gap; work-family balance policies; gender equality; EU-SILC
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 27-57
Journal
Hacienda Pública Española/Review of Public Economics (2022) 241 (2)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7866/HPE-RPE.22.2.2
ISSN
0210-1173
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed