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| Title: | | The family gap in wages: what Wombmates reveal  |
| Authors: | | Simonsen, Marianne Skipper, Lars |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 4650 |
| Abstract: | | We shed new light on the effects of having children on hourly wages by exploiting access to data on the entire population of employed same-sex twins in Denmark. Our second contribution is the use of administrative data on absenteeism; the amount of hours off due to holidays and sickness. Our results suggest that childbearing reduces female hourly wages but the principal explanation is in fact mothers' higher levels of absence. We find a positive wage premium for fathers. |
| Subjects: | | Fertility wages twins |
| JEL: | | J13 J24 J31 J71 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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