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Oxford Economic Papers 2009 61(Supplement 1):i56-i75; doi:10.1093/oep/gpn041
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This article appears in the following Oxford Economic Papers issue: Special Issue: WOMEN AND WAGES [View the issue table of contents]

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

Karen Mumford* and Peter N. Smith{dagger}

*Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD; and IZA, Institute for the Study of Labour; e-mail: kam9{at}york.ac.uk
{dagger}Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York

JEL classifications: J3, J7


  Abstract

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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