Job tasks, computer use, and the decreasing part-time pay penalty for women in the UK

A.E.A. Elsayed, Andries de Grip and Didier Fouarge
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No 11, Research Memorandum from Maastricht University, Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE)

Abstract: Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The convergence in computer use between part-time and full-time workers within these occupations explains a large share of the decrease in the part-time pay penalty. However, the lower part-time pay penalty is also related to lower wage returns to reading and writing which are performed more intensively by full-time workers. Conversely, the increasing returns to influencing has increased the part-time pay penalty despite the convergence in the influencing task input between part-time and full-time workers. The relative changes in the input and prices of computer use and job tasks together explain more than 50 percent of the decrease in the part-time pay penalty.

Date: 2014-01-01
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