A man's blessing or a woman's curse? The family earnings gap of doctors

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dc.contributor.authorSchurer, S.
dc.contributor.authorKuehnle, D.
dc.contributor.authorScott, A.
dc.contributor.authorCheng, T.
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionFirst published: 1 June 2016
dc.description.abstractWe examine the size and determinants of the family earnings gap for Australian general practitioners (GPs). Female GPs with children earn more than $30,000 less than comparable female GPs without children, while male GPs with children earn more than $45,000 more than comparable male GPs without children. The main determinants of the family gap are differences in observable characteristics such as working hours, labor-force attachment, and demographics, and additionally, for men, entrepreneurship and practice size. A fixed-effects extension of the analysis confirms both the carer effect of children on female GPs and the breadwinner effect of children on male GPs.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityStefanie Schurer, Daniel Kuehnle, Anthony Scott and Terence C. Cheng
dc.identifier.citationIndustrial Relations: a journal of economy and society, 2016; 55(3):385-414
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/irel.12143
dc.identifier.issn0019-8676
dc.identifier.issn1468-232X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/102058
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.grantNHMRC
dc.rights© 2016 Regents of the University of California Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12143
dc.titleA man's blessing or a woman's curse? The family earnings gap of doctors
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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