Are Part-Time Women Paid Less? A Model with Firm-Specific Effects

Mark Montgomery and James Cosgrove

Economic Inquiry, 1995, vol. 33, issue 1, 119-33

Abstract: This paper uses data from a survey of child-care establishments to compare part- and full-time wages within two narrow occupations, one high skill and one low skill. Unlike previous studies, it controls for firm-specific effects. The authors find that, when firm-specific effects are accounted for, only the low-skill workers in their sample receive lower wages for working part-time. On the other hand, when compensation is defined to include prorated fringe benefits, establishments appear to compensate both high- and low-skill part-timers at a lower hourly rate. Copyright 1995 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 1995
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