Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96678 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8069
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The convergence in computer use between part-time and full-time workers within these occupations explains a large share of the decrease in the part-time pay penalty. However, the lower part-time pay penalty is also related to lower wage returns to reading and writing which are performed more intensively by full-time workers. Conversely, the increasing returns to influencing has increased the part-time pay penalty despite the convergence in the influencing task input between part-time and full-time workers. The relative changes in the input and prices of computer use and job tasks together explain more than 50 percent of the decrease in the part-time pay penalty.
Subjects: 
part-time work
pay penalty
job tasks
computer use
JEL: 
J24
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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