The wage penalty for motherhood: Evidence on discrimination from panel data and a survey experiment for Switzerland
<b>Background</b>: Survey-based research finds a sizeable unexplained wage gap between mothers and nonmothers in affluent countries. The source of this wage gap is unclear: It can stem either from the unobserved effects of motherhood on productivity or from employer discrimination agains...
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| Language: | English |
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Demographic Research |
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| Online Access: | https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol37/56/ |