Childcare provision is the most frequently suggested measure to mitigate the “child penalty” for mothers, who often bear financial losses after having a child, usually in the form of declining incomes. The pay gap between men and women begins to widen after the birth of the first child. The differences in pay result in major consequences for lifelong labour earnings and pensions as well as a higher risk of poverty for women. ZEW economist Michaela Slotwinski and a team of researchers examined this relationship more closely. The lack of daycare places is perceived to be the greatest obstacle preventing mothers with small children from working at all or working more hours and is the reason why family incomes often decrease after the birth of the first child.
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European Integration
Events
Optimal Fuel Taxation with Suboptimal Health Choices
Speaker: Linus Mattauch (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Income Growth and Distributional Effects of Urban Spartial Sorting
Speaker: Erik Hurst (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, USA)
Is there a Gender Difference in Fleeing? Analyzing International Refugee Movements with a Gendered Perspective
Speaker: Laura Renner (University of Freiburg)
Privacy & Market Concentration Intended & Unintended Consequences of the GDPR
Speaker: Garrett Johnson (Boston University, USA)
Economics of Public Procurement Second ZEW Workshop
Keynote Speaker: Elena Krasnokutskaya (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
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