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| Title: | | The motherhood wage penalty in a Mediterranean country: the case of Spain  |
| Authors: | | Molina, José Alberto Montuenga, Víctor M. |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 3574 |
| Abstract: | | We present evidence for the motherhood wage penalty in Spain as a representative Southern European Mediterranean country. We use the European Community Household Panel (ECHP, 1994-2001) to estimate, from both pool and fixed-effects methods, a wage equation in terms of observed variables and other non-observed individual characteristics. The empirical results confirm that there is clear evidence of a wage penalty for Spanish working women with children. Specifically, the fact that there is a birth in the family during the current year means that the woman loses 9% of her wage. We also find that having one child living in the household means a significant loss in wages of 6%, having two children, almost 14%, and having three or more, more than 15%. |
| Subjects: | | Fixed-effects estimation motherhood wage penalty Spain |
| JEL: | | J30 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20080702166 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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