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Is the persistent gender gap in income and wages due to unequal family responsibilities?

We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood. Focusing on the within-couple gap allows us to control for both observed and unobserved attributes of the spouse and to estimate both short-and long-term effects of entering parenthood. Our main finding is that 15 years after the first child was born, the male-female gender gaps in income and wages have increased with 35 and 10 percentage points, respectively. In line with a collective labor supply model, the magnitude of these effects depends on relative incomes or wages within the family.

Language: Englisch

Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2013:3

Classification: Wirtschaft
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions

Subject: gender gap
quantile regression
income
wages

Event: Geistige Schöpfung

(who): Angelov, Nikolay
Johansson, Per
Lindahl, Erica

Event: Veröffentlichung

(who): Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)

(where): Uppsala

(when): 2013

Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/82243

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Angelov, Nikolay
Johansson, Per
Lindahl, Erica
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)

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2013

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