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A Man's Blessing or a Woman's Curse? The Family Earnings Gap of Doctors
Author(s) -
Schurer Stefanie,
Kuehnle Daniel,
Scott Anthony,
Cheng Terence C.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/irel.12143
Subject(s) - blessing , earnings , curse , demographics , entrepreneurship , demography , medicine , psychology , demographic economics , economics , sociology , geography , accounting , finance , archaeology , anthropology
We examine the size and determinants of the family earnings gap for Australian general practitioners ( GP s). Female GP s with children earn more than $30,000 less than comparable female GP s without children, while male GP s with children earn more than $45,000 more than comparable male GP s 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 GP s and the breadwinner effect of children on male GP s.