Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/101923 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8396
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using Bayesian Markov chain clustering analysis we investigate career paths of Austrian women after their first birth. This data-driven method allows characterizing long-term career paths of mothers over up to 19 years by transitions between parental leave, non-employment and different forms of employment. We, thus, classify women into five cluster-groups with very different long-run career costs of childbearing. We model group membership with a multinomial specification within the finite mixture model. This approach gives insights into the determinants of the long-run family gap. Giving birth late in life may lead very diverse outcomes: on the one hand, it increases the odds to drop out of labor force, and on the other hand, it increases the odds to reach a high-wage career track.
Subjects: 
Multinomial Logit
Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Transition Data
family gap
timing of birth
fertility
Panel Data
JEL: 
J13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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