What determines the part-time and gender earnings gaps in Britain: evidence from the workplace

TY - JOUR

T1 - What determines the part-time and gender earnings gaps in Britain

T2 - evidence from the workplace

AU - Mumford, K.

AU - Smith, P.N.

N1 - M1 - 1

PY - 2009/4

Y1 - 2009/4

N2 - This study examines the role of individual and workplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men and women in full and part-time jobs in Britain. A four-way gender-working time split (male full-timers, male part-timers, female full-timers, and female part-timers) is analysed, and allowance is explicitly made for workplace and occupational female segregation. Within gender groups, the striking difference between full and part-time employees is that full-timers work in higher paying occupations than do part-timers. Also, female occupational segregation makes a significant contribution to the earnings gap between male and female part-time employees but not for full-time workers. A further new result is that female workplace segregation contributes significantly to the full/part-time earnings gap of both males and females. Part-time employees work in more feminized workplaces and their earnings are lower. There remains, moreover, a substantial residual gender earnings gap between male and female employees.

AB - This study examines the role of individual and workplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men and women in full and part-time jobs in Britain. A four-way gender-working time split (male full-timers, male part-timers, female full-timers, and female part-timers) is analysed, and allowance is explicitly made for workplace and occupational female segregation. Within gender groups, the striking difference between full and part-time employees is that full-timers work in higher paying occupations than do part-timers. Also, female occupational segregation makes a significant contribution to the earnings gap between male and female part-time employees but not for full-time workers. A further new result is that female workplace segregation contributes significantly to the full/part-time earnings gap of both males and females. Part-time employees work in more feminized workplaces and their earnings are lower. There remains, moreover, a substantial residual gender earnings gap between male and female employees.

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KW - J7

KW - WORK

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=65449151332&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1093/oep/gpn041

DO - 10.1093/oep/gpn041

M3 - Article

SN - 0030-7653

VL - 61

SP - 56

EP - 75

JO - Oxford Economic Papers

JF - Oxford Economic Papers

IS - Supplement 1

ER -