Kunze, Astrid; Ejrnaes, Mette - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
birth. Data on daily real wages reveal a dip in women's real wages shortly before giving birth and a drop of 10 to 20 … percent after finishing maternity leave and returning to the labour market. To pinpoint what drives the movement in wages … around the first birth, we analyse the wages of women, taking into account the potential correlation of the duration of …