The Wage penalty for motherhood in Spain (2009-2017): the role of the male partner’s job characteristics*

Exploiting microdata from the Living Conditions Survey, and applying the coarsened exact matching algorithm to select a treatment and a control group of comparable women, we analyse the motherhood wage penalty in Spain from 2009 to 2017, with special attention to the effect of the male partner’s job...

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Autores: Herrarte Sánchez, Ainhoa, Urcelay, Paloma
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/716977
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/716977
https://dx.doi.org/10.7866/HPE-RPE.22.2.2
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Gender equality
Motherhood protection
Motherhood wage gap
Motherhood wage penalty
Work-family balance policies
Economía
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Resumo:Exploiting microdata from the Living Conditions Survey, and applying the coarsened exact matching algorithm to select a treatment and a control group of comparable women, we analyse the motherhood wage penalty in Spain from 2009 to 2017, with special attention to the effect of the male partner’s job characteristics. We find that mothers of children 0-3 years old suffered a penalty in their hourly wages of around 4.2%, which significantly increased when their partner was self-employed. Moreover, we only detect a wage penalty for high-educated women and for those who work in medium and large firms