The Effect of Marriage and Childrearing on Women’s Wages

• Main Authors: LEE,Yu-Ying, 李郁英
• Other Authors: LIN,Kuei-Hsiu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39708518136828482246

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 社會學系 === 102 === The negative correlation between marriage and childrearing and women’s hourly pay is well documented. However, the causal nature of that relationship is not clearly understood. The explanations for the association can be broadly divided into three categories: household specialization (including job interruptions, part‐time work, and lower productivity), unobserved characteristics, and employer discrimination. To partial out the bias from unobserved heterogeneity, data from the 1999-2007 Panel Study of Family Dynamics (PSFD) are investigated using Allison’s Hybrid Model. After taking unobserved heterogeneity and human capital into account, the empirical results indicate that the effect of marriage is not significant anymore. The cost of child rearing on hourly wage remains.