abstract: 'Recent scholarship suggests welfare state interventions, as measured by

  policy indices, create gendered trade-offs wherein reduced work-family

  conflict corresponds to greater gender wage inequality. The authors

  reconsider these trade-offs by unpacking these indices and examining

  specific policy relationships with motherhood-based wage inequality to

  consider how different policies have different effects. Using original

  policy data and Luxembourg Income Study microdata, multilevel models

  across 22 countries examine the relationships among country-level family

  policies, tax policies, and the motherhood wage penalty. The authors

  find policies that maintain maternal labor market attachment through

  moderate-length leaves, publicly funded childcare, lower marginal tax

  rates on second earners, and paternity leave are correlated with smaller

  motherhood wage penalties.'
affiliation: 'Budig, MJ (Corresponding Author), Univ Massachusetts, Dept Sociol, 7th
  Floor Thompson Hall,200 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003 USA.

  Budig, Michelle J., Univ Massachusetts, Sociol, Amherst, MA 01003 USA.

  Misra, Joya, Univ Massachusetts, Sociol \& Publ Policy, Amherst, MA 01003 USA.

  Boeckmann, Irene, WZB Berlin Social Sci Ctr, Berlin, Germany.'
author: Budig, Michelle J. and Misra, Joya and Boeckmann, Irene
author-email: budig@soc.umass.edu
author_list:
- family: Budig
  given: Michelle J.
- family: Misra
  given: Joya
- family: Boeckmann
  given: Irene
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1177/0730888415615385
eissn: 1552-8464
files: []
issn: 0730-8884
journal: WORK AND OCCUPATIONS
keywords: family; women; earnings; social policy
keywords-plus: 'WAGE PENALTY; GENDER INEQUALITY; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; LABOR-MARKETS;
  GAP;

  EUROPE; JOB; PAY; CARE; PERSPECTIVE'
language: English
month: MAY
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '97'
orcid-numbers: Misra, Joya/0000-0002-9427-3952
pages: 119-177
papis_id: a584becfb3f4b04fb8cf613475100740
ref: Budig2016workfamilypolicy
researcherid-numbers: 'Budig, Michelle/AAA-9207-2022

  '
times-cited: '97'
title: Work-Family Policy Trade-Offs for Mothers? Unpacking the Cross-National Variation
  in Motherhood Earnings Penalties
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000374023300001
usage-count-last-180-days: '3'
usage-count-since-2013: '91'
volume: '43'
web-of-science-categories: Industrial Relations \& Labor; Sociology
year: '2016'