Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177070 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11266
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using Current Population Survey data, I demonstrate a 15-percentage point wage disadvantage among academics compared to all other doctorate-holders with the same demographics. Time-diary data show that academics' workhours are distributed more evenly over the week and day, although their total workweeks are equally long. This smoother distribution of work time accounts for as much as one-third of the wage disadvantage. Survey data (of economists only) indicate that flexible scheduling is an attraction, but only fourth among the characteristics of academic life.
Subjects: 
time use
compensating wage differentials
flexibility
JEL: 
J44
J33
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
315.42 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.