期刊名称：Discussion Papers / Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
印刷版ISSN：0804-6824
出版年度：2004
卷号：2004
出版社：Bergen
摘要：We use a rich longitudinal data set for West Germany to disentangle the wage effects for female
workers around first birth. Data on daily real wages reveal a dip in women’s real wages shortly
before giving birth and a drop of 10 to 20 percent after finishing maternity leave and returning
to the labour market. To pinpoint what drives the movement in wages around the first birth,
we analyse the wages of women, taking into account the potential correlation of the duration
of individual interruptions due to parental leave with other unobserved individually specific
factors and non random sample selection. In order to identify the causes of the movements in
wages we exploit the panel structure of the data, regional variations in access to child care and
female unemployment rates, as well as policy changes, which increased the maximum duration
of parental leave from 6 months to 3 years.
