Parenthood and Labour Market Outcomes in Serbia

Lebedinski, Lara and Vladisavljević, Marko (2022) Parenthood and Labour Market Outcomes in Serbia. Ekonomski anali, LXVII (232). pp. 7-47. ISSN 0013-3264

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Abstract

Using the Labour Force Survey data for the period 2014 to 2018 for Serbia, this paper explores the effect of parenthood on the labour market trajectories of
parents, the so-called ‘parenthood penalty’.
We find that mothers are less likely than
non-mothers to be active in the labour
market when their children are very young,
but this effect is transitory, and mothers of
older children are actually more likely to be
active than non-mothers. Similarly, we observe that mothers of small children are less
like-ly to work overtime than non-mothers,
but also that both parents of older children
are more likely to engage in overtime work
than men and women without children.
We find a motherhood penalty in terms
of hourly wages for mothers with younger children, but the penalty is not significant
as children become older. By contrast, fathers are more likely to be active than nonfathers. We do not find an effect of fatherhood on hours worked or hourly wages.
Overall, our results suggest that the motherhood penalty is present in Serbia in the
early stages when children are young, but
motherhood does not seem to have lasting
effects on the labour market participation,
hours worked, or wage rates of mothers. We
do not find evidence of a fatherhood bonus,
but we find that fathers are more likely to be
active than non-fathers.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	COBISS.ID=66428425
Uncontrolled Keywords:	motherhood penalty, female employment, household econom
Research Department:	Welfare Economics
Depositing User:	Jelena Banovic
Date Deposited:	08 Nov 2022 15:02
Last Modified:	08 Nov 2022 15:02
URI:	http://35.240.28.64/id/eprint/1823
Author Links:	[error in script] No links available.

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