Motherhood and the Wages of Women in Professional Occupations
It is well established that mothers are paid less than childless women and that fathers tend to earn higher wages relative to childless men, but we do not know whether these findings apply to workers in all occupations. Using IPUMS and ACS data from 1980 and 2010, we examine the family wage gap for...
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| Language: | English |
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Russell Sage Foundation
2016-08-01
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| Series: | RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.4.05 |