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The wage penalty for motherhood: Evidence on discrimination from panel data and a survey experiment for Switzerland

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: 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 discrimi

Source: Demographic Research

DOI: 10.4054/demres.2017.37.56

Authors: Daniel Oesch, Oliver Lipps, Patrick McDonald

Institutions: University of Lausanne, FORS – Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Gender equality, Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: National Science Foundation, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung