Gender Segregation in Employment Contracts

Barbara Petrongolo

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EUcountries, using micro data from the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobsin all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation roughly reflectswomen¿s preferences and their need to combine work with child care, in southern Europepart-time jobs are often involuntary and provide significantly lower job satisfaction than fulltimeones. Women are also over-represented in fixed-term contracts in southern Europe, andagain this job allocation cannot be explained by preferences or productivity differentialsbetween the two genders. There is thus a largely unexplained residual in the gender joballocation, which may be consistent with some degree of discrimination in a few of the labourmarkets considered, especially in southern Europe.

Keywords: Gender gap; employment; taxation; public policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J28 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-05
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Working Paper: Gender Segregation in Employment Contracts (2004)
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