Working for less? Women's part-time wage penalties across countries

By Elena Bardasi, J. Gornick. 2008

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Abstract This paper investigates wage gaps between part- and full-time women workers in six OECD countries in the mid-1990s. Using comparable micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), for Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the US, the paper first assesses cross-national variation in the direction, magnitude, and composition of the part-time/full-time wage differential. Then it analyzes variations across these countries in occupational segregation between part- and full-time workers. The paper finds a part-time wage penalty among women workers in all countries, except Sweden. Other than in Sweden, occupational differences between part- and full-time workers dominate the portion of the wage gap that is explained by observed differences between the two groups of workers. Across countries, the degree of occupational segregation between female part- and full-time workers is negatively correlated with the position of part-time workers' wages in the full-time wage distribution.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Public Administration

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Female Labor Supply: Why is the US Falling Behind? (2013, background): “…the relative flexibility of part-time work, several studies have found a significant and large part-time wage penalty across a variety of countries (Bardasi and Gornick 2008; Manning and Petrongolo 2008; Matteazzi, Pailhé and Solaz 2012).11 In addition to having a much higher incidence of…”
Examining the gender wealth gap (2010, background): “…labor market attachment for male breadwinners, while women tend to have part-time work arrangements (including potential wage penalties; see Bardasi and Gornick, 2008), often with more diversified and perforated work histories due to child bearing and child rearing and more frequent job…”
Gendered parenthood penalties and premiums across the earnings distribution in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States (2014, background): “…they remain more likely than men to exit employment following the birth of a child and, if they return to work, to reduce their work hours to better balance employment and family demands (Bardasi and Gornick, 2008; Pettit and Hook, 2009; Lundberg and Rose, 2000; Sigle-Rushton and Waldfogel, 2007).”