Family Friendly Policies
Helping Mothers Make Ends Meet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9255871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heather Boushey (a Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) , Washington, DC, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-70 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Social Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6764 • E-ISSN: 1470-1162 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00346760701668446 |
| OpenAlex | W1976526695 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 7 |
This paper examines how family friendly policies affect mothers' wages. Standard economic theory predicts that workers who desire family friendly policies would accept lower wages, all else equal. However, in the US labor market, the workers who have access to these policies tend to be in the higher-prestige and higher-earning occupations. This study examines the effects on wages of having had access to maternity leave and the ability to control one's schedule, using the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The present-day wages of mothers who were working prior to the birth of their first child and received pay during their maternity leave are 9 percent higher compared to other mothers, controlling for other personal and job-related characteristics. Mothers who report working their current schedule because it helps them address their caring responsibilities—child care, elder care, or care for a sick family member—do not suffer a wage penalty as a result
Affect (linguistics) · Business · Control (management) · Demographic economics · Economics · Family Leave · Family-friendly · Labour economics · Management · Prestige · Schedule · Wage · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
Institutional Options, Cultural Orientation and Mothers’ Work and Family Reconciliation in Korea
The impact of work-family policies on women's employment
Opting out?” The effect of children on women's employment in the United States
Economic instability and mothers’ employment
Predictors and Outcomes of U.S. Quality Maternity Leave
Beyond measurement of the motherhood penalty
Motivators for and barriers against workplace flexibility
The value of 21st century work–family supports
Opting Out, Scaling Back, or Business‐as‐Usual? An Occupational Assessment of Women's Employment
Family-Friendly' Jobs and Motherhood Pay Penalties
Employee Experiences with a Newly Adopted Paid Parental Leave Policy
Segregation across Workplaces and the Motherhood Wage Gap
Familienpolitik, Bildung und Berufskarrieren von Müttern in Deutschland, USA und Schweden
Work–Family Balance
Flexible men and Successful Women
Between-firm sorting and parenthood wage gaps in the US service sector
| Citations per year | 0.84 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |