Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the year after the first child is born, mothers'...

La literatura ha documentado extensamente el papel de la maternidad en la brecha salarial de género. Utilizando datos de la Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales de la Seguridad Social, adoptamos la metodología utilizada en trabajos previos realizados en otros países para evaluar la existencia...

Utilizando datos de 17 países de Europa y Norteamérica, comparamos las trayectorias profesionales de hombres y mujeres con y sin hijos, de diferentes cohortes y en distintos puntos de su ciclo vital. Existe una amplia variación entre países en lo referente a las brechas de empleo y...

Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the year after the first child is born, mothers’...

Using data on 17 countries in Europe and North America, we compare the career trajectories of mothers and fathers and of women and men without children across cohorts, and at different points of their life cycle. There is wide variation across countries in employment and earnings gaps at age 30....