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The Gender Gap in Time Allocation in Europe
Giménez, José Ignacio - 2020
This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on several factors that may help to explain these differences. Prior research has identified several factors affecting the time individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and...
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How the Covid-19 Lockdown Affected Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Work in Spain
Farre, Lidia - 2020
work from home. The lockdown led to a large increase in childcare and housework, given the closing of schools and the … inability to outsource. We find that men increased their participation in housework and childcare slightly, but most of the … burden fell on women, who were already doing most of the housework before the lockdown. Overall, we find that the covid-19 …
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Performance Pay and the Gender Wage Gap : Evidence from Spain
de la Rica, Sara - 2010
features, possibly related to women's lower labour mobility due to housework, fit better with our results than other theories …
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The Part-Time Pay Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2009
While much of the literature that investigates the part-time (PT) / full-time (FT) hourly wage differential and its causes focuses on average effects, very few studies analyze the heterogeneous effects of PT work across different subgroups, despite the policy relevance of understanding channels...
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The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain
Manning, Alan - 2006
Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full-time. This gap has widened greatly over the past 30 years. This paper tries to explain this part-time pay penalty. It shows that a sizeable part of the penalty can be explained by...
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Job Tasks, Computer Use, and the Decreasing Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in the UK
Elsayed, Ahmed - 2014
Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The convergence in computer use between part-time and full-time workers within these occupations explains...
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Part-time Employment Can Be a Life-Time Setback for Earnings : A Study of British Women 1975-2001
Connolly, Sara; Gregory, Mary - 2021
Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a...
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Assessing the Importance of Male and Female Part-Time Work for the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
Mumford, Karen; Smith, Peter N. - 2021
This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, and workplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men and women in full and part-time jobs in Britain. A four-way gender-working time split (male full-timers, male...
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Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap : Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015
Robertson, Raymond - 2018
This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a...
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Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices
Lordan, Grace - 2016
Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be responsible for these gaps have weakened over time. Here, we explore the possibility that women and men have different tastes for the content of the work they do. We run...
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