Squeezing Birth into Working Life by Cécile Wetzels

Author:Cécile Wetzels [Wetzels, Cécile]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General
ISBN: 9781351792035
Google: 1D73DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-04T03:47:43+00:00

Women’s contribution to family income

Whereas the long run effects of labour force interruptions on earnings have been researched both using cross sectional data (Mincer and Polacheck 1974, Corcoran & Duncan 1978, Dankmeyer 1996, Gustafsson 1981, Albrecht et.al. 1997) and using longitudinal data (Mincer and ofek 1982) this chapter focuses on the short run effects. We believe that the short run effects around childbearing are a major determinant of the long run effects on women’s economic vulnerability.

The time of measuring earnings and work hours before and after childbearing, depends on whether the child was born right before a survey or after a survey. The earnings data are comparable across countries and before and after birth and across observations which are taken from all the different birth events from the early 1980s up to and including the early 1990s by the purchasing power transformation. Results are presented in Table 5.1.

We have identified 259 first births and 193 second births in Germany for which we have also been able to find earnings data for the woman and her husband both one survey before birth and two surveys after births. For Sweden we have identified 146 first births and 131 second births for which earnings information is available for the woman and her husband. In principle the earnings information is taken one survey before birth and two surveys after birth but as indicated above it is more complicated in the Swedish data because the surveys have not been annual and for some observations earnings information has been taken from the tax register information of ‘earnings last year’ which was merged to the HUS survey after permission had been received from the interview persons.

Table 5.1: Monthly Earnings of Women and their Spouses One Year before and Two Years after the Birth of the First and the Second Child in Former West Germany and Sweden

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