The Wage Penalty for Married Women of Career Interruptions
Evidence from the 1970s and the 1990s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21512728 |
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| Authors | John Bailey Jones (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Richmond VA USA, corresponding author), Minhee Kim (0000-0002-9020-8918, Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI) Jincheon‐gun South Korea, corresponding author), Byoung G Park (0000-0003-3358-2660, University at Albany SUNY Albany NY USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 783-807 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-9049 • E-ISSN: 1468-0084 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/obes.12356 |
| OpenAlex | W3002007016 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
The goal of this paper is to assess how the wage penalty for career interruptions by married women changed between the 1970s and the 1990s. We estimate the wage penalty for career interruptions using the work‐history model and PSID data. We use several approaches to control for various forms of endogeneity and selection bias. Our empirical results suggest that (i) the wage penalty for married women's career interruptions increased from 40.4% to 73.7% over the period, (ii) the ratio of the wage penalty for married women to that of married men also increased, from 1.33 to 2.43, (iii) Blinder–Oaxaca decompositions show that changes in education‐ or occupation‐specific wage penalties account for most of the wage penalty increase
Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · Endogeneity · Labour economics · Wage · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Retirement, Disability, and Employment
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Wage Discrimination
Interrupted Work Careers
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The Motherhood Wage Penalty Revisited
Time off at What Price? The Effects of Career Interruptions on Earnings
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