The Long-Term Costs of Family Trajectories: Women's Later-Life Employment and Earnings Across Europe.

ABSTRACT: The "motherhood earnings penalty" is a well-established finding in many Western countries. However, a divide between mothers and nonmothers might oversimplify reality given that the family life course has diversified over the last decades. In addition, whether family choices have consequences for women's employment and earnings in later life is not well known, particularly in a comparative perspective. Using data on 50- to 59-year-old women from the Generations and Gender Programme, the British Household Panel Survey, and SHARELIFE for 22 European countries, we derive a typology of women's family trajectories and estimate its association with women's later-life employment and earnings. Whereas family trajectory-related differences with regard to employment were relatively small, our findin

SUBMITTER: Muller JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7329756 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature