Working for Less? Women's Part-Time Wage Penalties across Countries

This paper investigates wage gaps between part- and full-time women workers in six OECD countries in the mid-1990s. Using comparable micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), for Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the US, the paper first assesses cross-national variation in the dir...

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Main Authors:	Bardasi, Elena, Gornick, Janet C.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Economics of Gender Non-labor Discrimination J160 Time Allocation and Labor Supply J220 Wage Level and Structure Wage Differentials J310 Labor Discrimination J710
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4995

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spelling	okr-10986-49952021-04-23T14:02:20Z Working for Less? Women's Part-Time Wage Penalties across Countries Bardasi, Elena Gornick, Janet C. Economics of Gender Non-labor Discrimination J160 Time Allocation and Labor Supply J220 Wage Level and Structure Wage Differentials J310 Labor Discrimination J710 This paper investigates wage gaps between part- and full-time women workers in six OECD countries in the mid-1990s. Using comparable micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), for Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the US, the paper first assesses cross-national variation in the direction, magnitude, and composition of the part-time/full-time wage differential. Then it analyzes variations across these countries in occupational segregation between part- and full-time workers. The paper finds a part-time wage penalty among women workers in all countries, except Sweden. Other than in Sweden, occupational differences between part- and full-time workers dominate the portion of the wage gap that is explained by observed differences between the two groups of workers. Across countries, the degree of occupational segregation between female part- and full-time workers is negatively correlated with the position of part-time workers' wages in the full-time wage distribution. 2012-03-30T07:30:45Z 2012-03-30T07:30:45Z 2008 Journal Article Feminist Economics 13545701 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4995 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Canada Germany Italy Sweden United Kingdom United States
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description	This paper investigates wage gaps between part- and full-time women workers in six OECD countries in the mid-1990s. Using comparable micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), for Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the US, the paper first assesses cross-national variation in the direction, magnitude, and composition of the part-time/full-time wage differential. Then it analyzes variations across these countries in occupational segregation between part- and full-time workers. The paper finds a part-time wage penalty among women workers in all countries, except Sweden. Other than in Sweden, occupational differences between part- and full-time workers dominate the portion of the wage gap that is explained by observed differences between the two groups of workers. Across countries, the degree of occupational segregation between female part- and full-time workers is negatively correlated with the position of part-time workers' wages in the full-time wage distribution.
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title	Working for Less? Women's Part-Time Wage Penalties across Countries
title_short	Working for Less? Women's Part-Time Wage Penalties across Countries
title_full	Working for Less? Women's Part-Time Wage Penalties across Countries
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Working for Less? Women's Part-Time Wage Penalties across Countries

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