TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara
AU  - Pertold, Filip
AU  - Gupta, Nabanita Datta
        TI  - Employment Adjustments around Childbirth
        PY  - 2016/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9685
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9685
        AB  - Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive private sector and the family-friendly public sector significantly changes around the birth of their first child. Specifically, mothers – post first childbirth – are increasingly switching from the private to the public sector and are also less likely to leave the public sector. The incidence of switching sectors can be partly explained by occupational characteristics, such as the convexity of pay and time pressure. In line with the compensating wage differential theory, we observe that the switch into the public sector is accompanied with a wage drop.
        KW  - motherhood
KW  - employment
KW  - sector switching
KW  - occupational characteristics
        ER  -