Birth Spacing and Working Mothers’ Within-Organization Career Paths

The mechanisms behind mothers’ wage penalties remain unclear. In this article, the authors consider the role of birth spacing and changes in employers after a second birth. Using the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and competing risk event history models, the authors investigate how spaci...

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Main Authors: Lisa Carlson, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Hsueh-Sheng Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2024-03-01
Series:Socius
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231241230845