Part-time employment can be a life-time setback for earnings
Subtitle: a study of British women 1975--2001
By: by Sara Connolly, Mary Gregory
Contributors: Gregory, Mary
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 3101; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 3101
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Part-time employment; Women; Employment
Description: "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 crucial period for career building. This makes it essential to understand its impact on women's subsequent earnings trajectories. We find that the wage return to part-time experience is low -- negligible in lower skill occupations. Even more important channels contributing to the pay disadvantage of women working part-time are job changing, particularly when this involves occupational downgrading. Downgrading can lead to a permanent pay disadvantage for women following a spell in part-time work"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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