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Childbearing Risk, Job Sectors, and the Motherhood Wage Penalty
Recent studies have advanced our knowledge of the motherhood wage penalty by expanding its temporal scope and adding a contextualized perspective....
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From fatherhood premium to motherhood penalty: trends in the fertility effects on men's and women's wage in China (1989–2015)
Investigating the impact of fertility on the wage earnings of men and women and its trends is important for understanding and co** with both the...
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Gender Wage Gap Among Couples and the Role of Parenthood Across the Wage Distribution in Turkey
The gender wage gap and the penalty of parenthood on wages are still major economic and sociological problems, especially in develo** economies....
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Basic Skills or Major-Specific Knowledge? Sources of Wage Penalties for Working Outside the Major Field of Study
This paper examines the sources of wage penalties for working outside one’s major field of study. Workers in jobs that are unrelated to their major...
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The Gender Wage Gap and Parenthood: Occupational Characteristics Across European Countries
Different strands of research analyse gender occupational differences and how they relate to differential earnings, especially among parents juggling...
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What Same-Sex Adoption Laws Can Tell Us About the Gender Wage Gap in the United States
Gender wage gaps are frequently explained as resulting from direct discrimination, employers’ preferences over personality traits, and differing...
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Is There an Informal Employment Penalty in Food Security? Evidence from Rural Vietnam
In this paper, we investigate the association between informal non-farm wage employment and household food security in rural Vietnam. The data for...
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Parenthood and Job Quality: Is There a Motherhood Penalty in the UK?
Current research recognises the role of parenthood in contributing to gender inequalities at work. Meanwhile, there is a growing interest in job...
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Gendered Divergence in the Impact of Parenthood on Wages: The Role of Family Size, Human Capital and Working Time
While gender pay disparity is a frequently researched area, few have focused on how parenthood and family size impact the wages of mothers and...
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Does Anti-Discrimination Legislation Work? The Case of Motherhood Penalty in the Czech Republic
The paper explores the effect of implementation of the Antidiscrimination Act 2009 (ADA) in the Czech Republic on a size of the motherhood penalty...
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Immigration Status and Farmwork: Understanding the Wage and Income Gap Across U.S. Policy and Economic Eras, 1989–2016
An estimated 7.8 million people live and work in the United States without authorized status. We examined the extent to which legal status makes them...
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The Impact of Overeducation on Wages of Recent Economic Sciences Graduates
According to human capital theory, wages are determined by workers' productivity which, in its crudest form, implies that return to education does...
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Are Mothers More Likely Than Fathers to Lose Their jobs?
The motherhood wage penalty is often cited as a contributor towards the gender earnings gap. A common explanation involves women’s labor supply...
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Temporal Flexibility, Breaks at Work, and the Motherhood Wage Gap
We analyze the relationship between temporal flexibility at work (i.e., the ability to vary or change the time of beginning or ending work) and the...
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Impact of Occupational Licensing on Wages and Wage Inequality: Canadian Evidence 1998–2018
Based on Labour Force Survey data for Canada over the period 1998 to 2018, we find occupational licensing raised average real wages from 6.1% in 1998...
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The Myth of Equal Opportunity in Germany? Wage Inequality and the Role of (Non-)academic Family Background for Differences in Capital Endowments and Returns on the Labour Market
While providing equal opportunities to all members of society independent of an individual’s socio-economic background is a major objective of German...
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Gender Segregation, Occupational Sorting, and Growth of Wage Disparities Between Women
Average female wages in traditionally male occupations have steeply risen over the past couple of decades in Germany. This trend led to a new and...
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Unraveling the Nexus between Overeducation and Depressive Symptoms in China: The Roles of Perceived Fairness of Earnings and Job Autonomy
The global expansion of educational systems has led to a growing prevalence of overeducation. Despite the well-documented overeducation-depression...
