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The Family Gap Reconsidered: What Wombmates Reveal

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  • Marianne Simonsen

    (School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus, Denmark)

  • Lars Skipper

    (Institute for Local Government Studies)

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 twins in Denmark. In addition we use 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 both when applying OLS on the entire population of Danes and when imposing twin fixed effects in the twin sample.

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  • Marianne Simonsen & Lars Skipper, 2009. "The Family Gap Reconsidered: What Wombmates Reveal," Economics Working Papers 2009-09, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.
    • Handle: RePEc:aah:aarhec:2009-09
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    Keywords

    Fertility; wages; twins;
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    JEL classification:

    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing

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