Women's Part-Time - Full-Time Wage Differentials in Europe: an Endogenous Switching Model

Fabrizio Colella

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Abstract: This paper analyzes the composition of the wage differentials among part-time and full-time working women in seven European countries: France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. Using cross-sectional microdata from the eighth waves of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions project (EU-SILC), the study investigates the variances in part-time/full-time hourly wage gap and the role of different occupational profiles as a possible explanation. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder Wage Decomposition, corrected for double sample selection to account for participation decisions and part-time/full-time choice, the adjusted wage gap is found to be negative in all countries except Sweden, where data show a significant part-time premium. Controlling for different job-related characteristics, the research points to a reduction of the gap in all countries; the unexplained portion remains, however, relevant in some countries. In order to shed light on the latter, existing studies are evaluated showing how cross-country dissimilarities can be due to cultural characteristics connected to workers' preferences and different institutional frameworks.

Keywords: Part-Time; Endogenous; Switching; Model; Wage; Differentials; Women (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J0 J3 J5 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-04-01
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