Wage Offers and Full-Time and Part-Time Employment by British Women

Ermisch, John; Wright, Robert E.

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“…While the earliest studies focused on the US (Jones and Long, 1979;Blank, 1990) and the UK (Ermisch and Wright, 1993), the more recent literature has evaluated the PT pay penalty in many industrialized countries, such as Australia (Rodgers, 2004), Belgium (Jepsen, 2001;and Jepsen et al, 2005), Norway (Hardoy and Schøne, 2004), The Netherlands (Hu and Tijdens, 2003); and West Germany (Wolf, 2002), among others. Most studies find a negative unadjusted PT wage gap (a PT pay penalty), the magnitude of which differs substantially across the different countries.…”

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“…Thus, there has been a deepening segmentation of these labor markets with 'insiders' (those with permanent contracts), on the one side, enjoying high level of employment protection, decent jobs and generous benefits, and 'outsiders' (those with fixed-term contracts), on the other, having poor labor market perspectives and low 1 See Jones and Long, 1979;Blank, 1990;Ermisch and Wright, 1993;Montgomery and Cosgrove, 1995;Jepsen, 2001;Wolf, 2002;Hu and Tijdens, 2003;Rodgers, 2004;Jepsen et al, 2005;Hardoy and Schøne, 2006;Manning and Petrongolo, 2008;and Connolly and Gregory, 2009, among others. 2 A possible explanation for this is that most studies (especially in Europe) rely on relatively small sample sizes of individuals who work PT making difficult the heterogeneity analysis.…”

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“…1986; Blank, 1990;and Hotchkiss, 1991;Ermisch and Wright, 1993;Rodgers, 2004;Pagán Rodríguez, 2007;Manning and Petrongolo, 2008;Mumford and Smith, 2008, among others.…”

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“…Unfortunately, such a variable is extremely difficult to find. And albeit children and marital status are frequently used as variables affecting the decision to work PT but not the wages earned-see Ermisch and Wright, 1993;Blank, 1998;Manning and Petrongolo, 2008, among others-, it is well established in this literature that "this is a very strong assumption that may not, in reality, be any better than the exogeneity assumption that this is supposed to replace" (Manning and Petrongolo, page F33, Economic Journal 2008). Aaronson and French, 2004, are the only ones that we know of to use an alternative instrument for worked hours, the work disincentive of the Social Security system.…”

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The part-time pay penalty in a segmented labor market

Fernández-Kranz

Rodríguez‐Planas

2011

Labour Economics

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This paper is the first to examine the implications of switching to PT work for women's subsequent earnings trajectories, distinguishing by their type of contract: permanent or fixedterm. Using a rich longitudinal Spanish data set from Social Security records of over 76,000 prime-aged women strongly attached to the Spanish labor market, we find that PT work aggravates the segmentation of the labor market insofar there is a PT pay penalty and this penalty is larger and more persistent in the case of women with fixed-term contracts. The paper discusses problems arising in empirical estimation (including a problem not discussed in the literature up to now: the differential measurement error of the LHS variable by PT status), and how to address them. It concludes with policy implications relevant for Continental Europe and its dual structure of employment protection.

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“…1986; Blank, 1990;and Hotchkiss, 1991;Ermisch and Wright, 1993;Rodgers, 2004;Pagán Rodríguez, 2007;Manning and Petrongolo, 2008;Mumford and Smith, 2008, among others.…”

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The part-time pay penalty in a segmented labor market

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Rodríguez‐Planas

2011

Labour Economics

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“…First, empirical studies show that part-time employment involves a wage penalty in the United States and in the United Kingdom, while the wage differential between full-time and part-time workers is negligible in the Nordic countries (Blank, 1990;Ermisch and Wright, 1993;Hardoy and Schøne, 2006). Recent studies point out that the US penalty is largely explained by measurable worker and job characteristics, as well as by unobserved worker heterogeneity (Hirsch, 2005), and that the UK penalty can be attributed to occupational segregation (Manning and Petrongolo, 2006).…”

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Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries

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Bratsberg²,

Røed³

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The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &Amp; Policy

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Demand for Part-time Workers in the U.S. Economy: Why is the Distribution across Industries Uneven?

Pitts

1998

Social Science Research

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Wage Offers and Full-Time and Part-Time Employment by British Women

Cited by 128 publications

References 26 publications

The part-time pay penalty in a segmented labor market

The part-time pay penalty in a segmented labor market

Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries

Demand for Part-time Workers in the U.S. Economy: Why is the Distribution across Industries Uneven?

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