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The impact of children on female earnings in Britain

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dc.creator Viitanen, Tarja K.
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:58:20Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:58:20Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18110
dc.identifier ppn:385548079
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18110
dc.description This paper examines the impact of children on female wages in the UK using the National Child Development Study. Empirically this involves using an extension of the Roy model, which simultaneously corrects for the endogeneity of labour force participation and fertility. The wage differential between women without children and women with children is estimated to range between 19% and 22% not accounting for endogeneity. This result confirms the findings of many previous studies, however, the results indicate substantial non-random selection into employment for women hence leading to biased OLS estimates. The wage differential reduces to 16%-18% instrumenting participation and fertility, however, using the estimates obtained from the double-selection model, the wage differential between mothers and childless women reduces to just 10%-13%.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin
dc.relation DIW-Diskussionspapiere 415
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J13
dc.subject J22
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject female labour supply
dc.subject fertility
dc.subject wage differentials
dc.subject Frauenarbeitslohn
dc.subject Lohnstruktur
dc.subject Kinder
dc.subject Mütter
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Grossbritannien
dc.title The impact of children on female earnings in Britain
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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