Arbeitspapier
Motherhood and flexible jobs: Evidence from Latin American countries
We study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. Our main contributions are: (i) providing new and comparable evidence on the effects of motherhood on labour outcomes in developing countries; (ii) exploring the possible mechanisms driving these outcomes; (iii) discussing the potential links between child penalty and the prevailing gender norms and family policies in the region. We find that motherhood reduces women's labour supply in the extensive and intensive margins and influences female occupational structure towards flexible occupations- part-time work, self-employment, and labour informality-needed for family-work balance. Furthermore, countries with more conservative gender norms and less generous family policies are associated with larger differences between mothers' and non-mothers' labour market outcomes.
- ISBN
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978-92-9256-971-6
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2021/33
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Informal Labor Markets
- Thema
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child penalty
event study
female labour supply
self-employment
labour informality
developing countries
Latin America
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Berniell, Inés
Berniell, Lucila
Dolores de la Mata
Edo, María
Marchionni, Mariana
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
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Helsinki
- (wann)
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2021
- DOI
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doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2021/971-6
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Berniell, Inés
- Berniell, Lucila
- Dolores de la Mata
- Edo, María
- Marchionni, Mariana
- The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Entstanden
- 2021