Very happy with this new paper from our project comparing labour market trajectories of mothers with administrative data.
We compare how big and how socioeconomically stratified employment reductions following motherhood in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 are.
TLDR: Much bigger in 🇩🇪 , but (!!) much more stratified in 🇫🇷
We compare how big and how socioeconomically stratified employment reductions following motherhood in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 are.
TLDR: Much bigger in 🇩🇪 , but (!!) much more stratified in 🇫🇷
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Andreas Filser
New working paper with P Achard, C Frodermann, D Müller &
@sanderwagner.bsky.social:using harmonized admin data for
#France & #Germany, we study the stratification of maternal employment in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 based on higher pre-birth income, education, and firm-level median earnings. #sociology
#demography
@sanderwagner.bsky.social:using harmonized admin data for
#France & #Germany, we study the stratification of maternal employment in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 based on higher pre-birth income, education, and firm-level median earnings. #sociology
#demography
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How big are work reductions in 🇩🇪 compared to 🇫🇷 ?
- Labour market participation in 🇩🇪 is reduced between 40-70% in the 5 years after birth, in 🇫🇷 between 10-30%.
- Among those continuing to work in 🇩🇪 full-time is reduced by about 70% in favour of part-time, in 🇫🇷 between 15-30%.
How socioeconomically stratified are the work reductions?
We looked at income, education & firm-level income the year before birth:
In 🇲🇫 reductions are much more stratified along all dimensions.
A low-income mother in 🇲🇫 will reduce labour participation 3.2x more than a high income mother.
What if we model all three dimensions of stratification jointly?
- Pre-birth income stands out as stratifying employment reductions most strongly (higher income mothers reduce employment less)
- France again stands out as having much more stratified employment reductions than Germany.
What if we look at more local labour markets by re-estimating motherhood penalties and their stratification by pre-birth income at NUTS-2?
We get a map showing big participation penalties in 🇩🇪 and small ones' in 🇫🇷.
But highly stratified penalties in 🇫🇷 and unstratified ones in 🇩🇪 .
But the relationship between size and stratification of penalties only holds between Fr, Ger and East Ger and not at the Nuts-2 level within those contries/regions.
- We expected bigger employment penalties to be more stratified (after all they can vary more and high income mothers stand more to lose). The opposite was true.
- In policy setups favouring a quick return to the labour market special attention has to be paid to low income mothers.