Why are Well-educated Women not Full-timers?

Helena Nielsen and Mette Verner ()

Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift, 2006, vol. 2006, issue 1, 43-74

Abstract: A priori, one would expect that well-educated women would choose to work full-time to collect the returns to their investment in education. However, that is not the case. We analyse this phenomenon in a discrete choice dynamic programming framework, taking the potentially endogenous effect of work experience on annual earnings into account. We find that the main explanations are flat experience profiles and a high disutility of work. Policy simulations reveal that a moderate change in the return to experience or a moderate reduction in unemployment benefits would increase the proportion of full-timers substantially

Keywords: arbejdsliv (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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