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Sacrificing Their Careers for Their Families? An Analysis of the Penalty to Motherhood in Europe

verfasst von: Vanessa Gash

Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research | Ausgabe 3/2009

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This paper examines the extent of and the mechanisms behind the penalty to motherhood in six European countries. Each country provides different levels of support for maternal employment allowing us to determine institutional effects on labour market outcome. While mothers tend to earn less than non-mothers, the penalty to motherhood is considerably lower in countries with policy support for working mothers. The paper establishes the United Kingdom and West Germany to have the least policy support for working mothers as well as the largest penalties to motherhood.

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The statistical analyses are restricted to West Germany given the ongoing differences in the labour market performance of East and West Germany.

It should be noted that Davies and Pierre’s analysis of ‘old’ mothers is likely to be more typical of the ‘average’ mother, with the mean age of mothers at (all) birth(s) varying between 28.9 and 30.8 years (Table 1).

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These models controlled for occupational level, working hours, marital status, educational level, work experience and age.

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Titel: Sacrificing Their Careers for Their Families? An Analysis of the Penalty to Motherhood in Europe
verfasst von: Vanessa Gash
Publikationsdatum: 01.09.2009
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research / Ausgabe 3/2009
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-008-9429-y

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