The Family Gap in Wages: What Wombmates Reveal
32 Pages Posted: 22 Dec 2009
Abstract
We shed new light on the effects of having children on hourly wages by exploiting access to data on the entire population of employed same-sex twins in Denmark. Our second contribution is the use of administrative data on absenteeism; the amount of hours off due to holidays and sickness. Our results suggest that childbearing reduces female hourly wages but the principal explanation is in fact mothers' higher levels of absence. We find a positive wage premium for fathers.
Keywords: fertility, wages, twins
JEL Classification: J13, J24, J31, J71
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Simonsen, Marianne and Skipper, Lars, The Family Gap in Wages: What Wombmates Reveal. IZA Discussion Paper No. 4650, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1526080 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1526080
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