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Title: The Marriage Tax: Do Marriage and Children Impact the Success of Self-Employed Men and Women Differently?
Citation Type: Conference Paper
Publication Year: 2010
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Abstract: This study focuses on women entrepreneurs' underperformance, specifically addressing the question of whether the presence of children and a spouse impact self-employed men and women's wages differently. The basic proposition is that marriage and children pose a different set of challenges to men and women entrepreneurs. By acknowledging the overlap of gender, family, and business we are able to observe how the institution of marriage as well as the presence of children impacts women's self-employment wages differently from men's. For the overall self-employed population, marriage and children both served as a positive influence on hourly wages. However, when observing the interaction of women and children as well as women and marriage on wage, both overlaps seem to have a negative impact on wage.
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Authors: Flaig, Anna; Marshall, Maria I
Conference Name: ICSB World Conference Proceedings
Publisher Location: Washington
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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