TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Schurer, Stefanie
AU  - Kühnle, Daniel
AU  - Scott, Anthony
AU  - Cheng, Terence Chai
        TI  - One Man's Blessing, Another Woman's Curse? Family Factors and the Gender-Earnings Gap of Doctors
        PY  - 2012/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7017
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7017
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - family physicians
KW  - decomposition methods
KW  - labour force attachment
KW  - family-earnings gap
KW  - gender-earnings gap
KW  - MABEL
        ER  -