Back-to-front down-under? part-time/full-time wage differentials in Australia
By: by Alison L. Booth, Margi Wood
Contributors: Wood, Margi
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2268; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2268
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Wage differentials; Part-time employment
Description: "In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia tops the OECD league in terms of its proportion of working men who are part-time. In this paper we investigate part-time full-time hourly wage gaps using important new panel data from the first four waves of the new Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. We find that, once unobserved individual heterogeneity has been taken into account, part-time men and women typically earn an hourly pay premium. This premium varies with casual employment status, but is always positive, a result that survives our robustness checks. We advance some hypotheses as to why there is a part-time pay advantage in Australia"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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