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WORK AND OCCUPATIONS
Volume 43, Issue 2, Pages 119-177Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0730888415615385
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family; women; earnings; social policy
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Recent scholarship suggests welfare state interventions, as measured by policy indices, create gendered trade-offs wherein reduced work-family conflict corresponds to greater gender wage inequality. The authors reconsider these trade-offs by unpacking these indices and examining specific policy relationships with motherhood-based wage inequality to consider how different policies have different effects. Using original policy data and Luxembourg Income Study microdata, multilevel models across 22 countries examine the relationships among country-level family policies, tax policies, and the motherhood wage penalty. The authors find policies that maintain maternal labor market attachment through moderate-length leaves, publicly funded childcare, lower marginal tax rates on second earners, and paternity leave are correlated with smaller motherhood wage penalties.
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