Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173666 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market No. BWP - 2016/1
Publisher: 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Budapest
Abstract: 
The paper documents employment and wage gaps, which arise between mothers and childless women, for a set of 28 European countries. The role of family policies in explaining these inequalities is then examined by looking at a single policy as well as childcare and leave policies interaction. The findings from the fixed effects model reveal that childcare coverage for small children and the length of maternity and paid parental leaves are important for explaining the size of the motherhood gap in employment. The impact of the leaves depends, however, on childcare availability: long maternity leaves combined with high childcare coverage lead to greater employment gap than when the coverage is low. The results do not prove that the interaction effect is present for the motherhood wage gap, which is found to be predominantly affected by the length of paid parental leave.
Subjects: 
family gap
maternal employment
family policies
childcare
JEL: 
J13
J18
J22
J31
ISBN: 
978-615-5594-34-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
787.58 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.