Coordinated Work Schedules and the Gender Wage Gap

German Cubas, Chinhui Juhn and Pedro Silos

The Economic Journal, 2023, vol. 133, issue 651, 1036-1066

Abstract: This paper studies how coordinated work schedules across jobs contribute to the gender wage gap. Using US time diary data, we construct occupation-level measures of coordinated schedules. Higher coordination is associated with higher wages and a larger gender wage gap. Empirically, women with children allocate more time to household care and are penalised for missing work during peak hours. An equilibrium occupational choice model generates a gender wage gap of 8.9%; most of the gender wage gap is within occupations. If coordination is set to the value of healthcare support across all occupations, the within-occupation gender gap halves.

Date: 2023
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