The motherhood penalty in Spain: the effect of full-and part-time parental leave on women's earnings
Fecha
2022Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
Versión aceptada / Onetsi den bertsioa
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10.1093/sp/jxab046
Resumen
The persistence of a wage gap between mothers and non-mothers has been widely analyzed. However, we know little about the impact of family policies on this relative motherhood penalty. This study investigates the extent to which unpaid leave granted for longer-term care of young children after an initial spell of maternity leave affects the motherhood wage gap, and whether full-time leave and par ...
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The persistence of a wage gap between mothers and non-mothers has been widely analyzed. However, we know little about the impact of family policies on this relative motherhood penalty. This study investigates the extent to which unpaid leave granted for longer-term care of young children after an initial spell of maternity leave affects the motherhood wage gap, and whether full-time leave and part-time leave differ in this respect. We use panel data from the Continuous Sample of Working Lives and rely on a sample consisting of 959,359 women aged twenty-five to forty-seven between 2005 and 2012. We find first a negative association between use and duration of unpaid parental leave and mothers' wages, and second that a full-time unpaid leave carries higher wage penalties than a part-time unpaid leave of the same duration. This study has major implications for policymaking. [--]
Materias
Motherhood penalty,
Family policy,
Income inequalities,
Spain
Editor
Oxford University Press
Publicado en
Social Politics, 2022
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Sociología y Trabajo Social /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Soziologia eta Gizarte Lana Saila
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Entidades Financiadoras
The authors would like to thank the Recercaixa 2014, the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (projects CSO2017-89397-R and PID2020-119339GB-C22), and the Public University of Navarre (Grant for Young Researchers 2018) for supporting this study.