Who values the family-friendly aspects of a job? Evidence from the Japanese labour market

Tadashi Sakai and Naomi Miyazato

The Japanese Economic Review, 2014, vol. 65, issue 3, 397-413

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Women with family responsibilities such as child-rearing generally prefer jobs with flexible working conditions. According to the theory of compensating wage differentials, women working in such family-friendly jobs are paid less than those working in family-unfriendly jobs. The present paper investigates whose wages are more greatly affected by the family-(un)friendly aspects of their jobs. Based on a longitudinal survey of Japanese women, we found that among several family-(un)friendly attributes of a job, only commuting time requires a wage premium, and most of the premium is associated with job changes made by part-time-working married women.

Date: 2014
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