%0 Report
        %A Schurer, Stefanie
%A Kühnle, Daniel
%A Scott, Anthony
%A Cheng, Terence Chai
        %T One Man's Blessing, Another Woman's Curse? Family Factors and the Gender-Earnings Gap of Doctors
        %D 2012
        %8 2012 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 7017
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7017
        %X Using data from a new longitudinal survey of doctors from Australia, the authors test whether observed large gender-pay gaps among general practitioners (GPs) are the result of women's larger willingness to interrupt their careers. On average, female GPs earn A$83,000 or 54% less than male GPs. The difference between men and women with children is A$105,000, and A$45,000 for men and women without children. Of this gap, 66-75% is explained by differences in observable characteristics such as hours worked. The family gap emerges also within the sexes. Female GPs with children experience an earnings penalty of A$15,000-A$25,000 in comparison to women without children; almost 100% of this difference is due to observable characteristics such as hours worked and career interruptions. Male GPs with children experience a family premium of A$35,000 in comparison to men without children, indicating the presence of a breadwinner effect that exacerbates the gender-earnings gap.
        %K family physicians
%K decomposition methods
%K labour force attachment
%K family-earnings gap
%K gender-earnings gap
%K MABEL