Work-family policy trade-offs for mothers? Unpacking the cross-national variation in motherhood earnings penalties

Artikel

Recent scholarship suggests welfare state interventions, as measured by policy indices, create gendered trade-offs wherein reduced work–family conflict corresponds to greater gender wage inequality. The authors reconsider these trade-offs by unpacking these indices and examining specific policy relationships with motherhood-based wage inequality to consider how different policies have different effects. Using original policy data and Luxembourg Income Study microdata, multilevel models across 22 countries examine the relationships among country-level family policies, tax policies, and the motherhood wage penalty. The authors find policies that maintain maternal labor market attachment through moderate-length leaves, publicly funded childcare, lower marginal tax rates on second earners, and paternity leave are correlated with smaller motherhood wage penalties.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Work and occupations ; ISSN: 1552-8464 ; Volume: 43 ; Year: 2016 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 119-177 ; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: family ; women ; earnings ; social policy

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Budig, Michelle J. ; Misra, Joya ; Boeckmann, Irene
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Sage
• (wo): Thousand Oaks, CA
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1177/0730888415615385
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/171453
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:22 MESZ