Part-time Work, Wages and Productivity: Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data
The authors use matched employer-employee panel data on Belgian private-sector firms to estimate the relationship between wage/productivity differentials and the firm’s labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that the groups of women and part-timers generate employer rents, but also that the origin of these rents differs (relatively lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2013 |
Schlagwörter: | Economie / Time Allocation and Labor Supply / J22 / Human Capital / Skills / Occupational Choice / Labor Productivity / J24 / Wage Level and Structure / Wage Differentials / J31 / Wages / productivity / part-time employment / gender / matched panel data / GMM |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26527833 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/151580 |
The authors use matched employer-employee panel data on Belgian private-sector firms to estimate the relationship between wage/productivity differentials and the firm’s labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that the groups of women and part-timers generate employer rents, but also that the origin of these rents differs (relatively lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female part-timers is associated with wage penalties. The authors conclude that men and women differ with respect to motives for reducing working hours and the types of part-time jobs available to them: women often have to accommodate domestic constraints by downgrading to more flexible jobs, whereas male part-time work is frequently related to training and collectively negotiated hours reductions that do not affect hourly pay. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published