Work-family policy trade-offs for mothers? Unpacking the cross-national variation in motherhood earnings penalties

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Recent scholarship suggests welfare state interventions, as measured by policy indices, create gendered trade-offs wherein reduced work–family conflict corresponds to greater gender wage inequality. The authors reconsider these trade-offs by unpacking these indices and examining specific policy relationships with motherhood-based wage inequality to consider how different policies have different effects. Using original policy data and Luxembourg Income Study microdata, multilevel models across 22 countries examine the relationships among country-level family policies, tax policies, and the motherhood wage penalty. The authors find policies that maintain maternal labor market attachment through moderate-length leaves, publicly funded childcare, lower marginal tax rates on second earners, and paternity leave are correlated with smaller motherhood wage penalties.

Object Details

• ISSN: 1552-8464
• Extent: Seite(n): 119-177
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Work and Occupations, 43(2)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Familienpolitik, Jugendpolitik, Altenpolitik ; Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung ; Familie-Beruf ; Familienpolitik ; geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren ; Einkommensunterschied ; Mutterschaft ; Ungleichheit ; Sozialpolitik ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; internationaler Vergleich

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Budig, Michelle J. ; Misra, Joya ; Boeckmann, Irene
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
• (when): 2016

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0730888415615385
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/171453
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST