Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/160895 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
LIS Working Paper Series No. 223
Publisher: 
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
This paper uses cross-nationally comparable data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to analyze the patterns and consequences of part-time employment among women across five industrialized countries - Canada, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States - as of the middle 1990s. The results reveal the influence of dependent care responsibilities related to the presence of young children and elderly household members. We also find unadjusted part-time wage penalties everywhere, ranging from 8-12% in Canada and Germany, to 15% in the UK, to as high as 22% in the US and Italy, meaning that part-time workers earn that much less than full-time workers. The sources of the observed wage gaps vary markedly across countries; only in Germany do we find evidence of 'discrimination' against part-time workers.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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