Part-Week Work and Human Capital Investment by Married Women

Ethel B. Jones and James E. Long

Journal of Human Resources, 1972, vol. 7, issue 4, 563-578

Abstract: This paper uses National Longitudinal Surveys data to examine the relationship between part-week work and the wages and postschool human capital investment of married women. The empirical evidence presented is consistent with the hypothesis that part-week workers and their employers will have relatively lower incentive to invest in on-the-job training since part-week work means fewer hours in the labor market than full-week employment. The effect of part-week work by women on the male-female wage differential is ambiguous because the labor force participation of married women is discontinuous over the life cycle.

Date: 1972
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