The wage penalty for motherhood in Spain (2009-2017): The role of the male partner’s job characteristics

• Ainhoa Herrarte ^[1] ; Paloma Urcelay ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

     Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

     Madrid, España

     
  2. [2] Banco de España
• Localización: Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, ISSN 0210-1173, Nº 241, 2022, págs. 27-57
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • La penalización salarial por maternidad en España (2009-2017): el papel de las características laborales de la pareja masculina
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  • español

    Utilizando microdatos procedentes de la Encuesta de Condiciones de Vida y aplicando el algoritmo coarserned exact matching para seleccionar un grupo tratamiento y de control de mujeres con características comparables, analizamos la penalización salarial por maternidad en España desde 2009 a 2017, prestando especial atención al efecto de las características del trabajo de la pareja sobre dicha penalización. Los resultados muestran que las madres de niños de 0 a 3 años, sufren una penalización en el salario por hora trabajada del 4.2%, incrementándose significativamente para las madres cuyas parejas trabajan por cuenta propia. Adicionalmente, la penalización por maternidad solo resulta significativa para las mujeres con estudios superiores y para las que trabajan en empresas grandes y medianas.

  • English

    Exploiting microdata from the Living Conditions Survey, and applying the coarsened exact matching algorithm to select a treatment and a control group of comparable women, we analyse the motherhood wage penalty in Spain from 2009 to 2017, with special attention to the effect of the male partner’s job characteristics. We find that mothers of children 0-3 years old suffered a penalty in their hourly wages of around 4.2%, which significantly increased when their partner was self-employed. Moreover, we only detect a wage penalty for high-educated women and for those who work in medium and large firms.

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