Bianca, Buligescu; de, Crombrugghe Denis; Gülcin, … - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2008
The focus of this paper is the size of the wage penalty due to maternal leave incurred by working mothers in Germany. Existing estimates suggest two-digit penalties of up to 30 percent, with very little rebound over time. We apply recent panel data methods designed to address problems of sample...