Women and Part-Time Employment: Workers ""Choices"" and Wage Penalties in Five Industrialized Countries

Elena Bardasi ()

No 223, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: This paper uses cross-nationally comparable data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to analyze the patterns and consequences of part-time employment among women across five industrialized countries Canada, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States as of the middle 1990s. The results reveal the influence of dependent care responsibilities related to the presence of young children and elderly household members. We also find unadjusted part-time wage penalties everywhere, ranging from 8-12% in Canada and Germany, to 15% in the UK, to as high as 22% in the US and Italy, meaning that part-time workers earn that much less than full-time workers. The sources of the observed wage gaps vary markedly across countries; only in Germany do we find evidence of discrimination against part-time workers.

Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2000-03
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Published in In Brigida Garcia, Richard Anker, and Antonella Pinnelli (eds.), Women in the Labour Market in Changing Economies: Demographic Consequences, Oxford: Oxford University Press (with Janet C. Gornick)

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