This article analyzes the earnings penalty of non-participation faced by women who withdraw occasionally from the labor force in Canada. The Canadian Fertility Survey (CFS) was used for the econometric analysis based on labor market events taking place in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The CFS is a retrospective survey of the labor market and the fertility history of 5000 Canadian women. The result of the analysis is that labor market interruptions are typically longer when explained by fertility. The distribution of time from entrance until the first interruption and the duration of the interruption reveal the importance of heterogeneity. The more educated women, in particular, return to work much faster but do not seem to work longer (before interrupting) than other women do. The earning analysis revealed that, when potential endogeneity is ignored, there exist a negative relationship between interruption duration and female earnings. Furthermore, all things being equal, women who interrupt for fertility have higher earnings than women who interrupt for other reasons, probably because interruption was driven by fertility which is considered a necessity for a large number of women.

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生育能力和不参与的人力资本损失

本文分析了偶尔退出加拿大劳动力市场的女性所面临的不参与的收入惩罚。加拿大生育率调查 (CFS) 用于基于 1970 年代末或 1980 年代初劳动力市场事件的计量经济学分析。CFS 是一项对劳动力市场和 5000 名加拿大女性生育历史的回顾性调查。分析的结果是，如果用生育率来解释，劳动力市场的中断时间通常会更长。从进入到第一次中断的时间分布和中断持续时间揭示了异质性的重要性。特别是受教育程度越高的女性，重返工作岗位的速度要快得多，但似乎并没有比其他女性工作更长时间（在中断之前）。盈利分析显示，当忽略潜在的内生性时，中断持续时间与女性收入之间存在负相关关系。此外，在所有条件相同的情况下，因生育而中断的女性比因其他原因中断的女性收入更高，这可能是因为生育被认为是大量女性所必需的。