Effects of child care responsibilities on women's income and career

Abstract:

Having one or more children appears to have a clearly negative impact on mothers in terms of their income, labour market integration and career. This is the main conclusion of an analysis of social security data commissioned by the Labour Market Service in Austria. Moreover, the income disadvantages experienced by women due to childcare responsibilities during the first phase of their labour market trajectories does not appear to be compensated for during the later stages of their working life.