TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Connolly, Sara
AU  - Gregory, Mary
        TI  - Part-time Employment Can Be a Life-time Setback for Earnings: A Study of British Women 1975–2001
        PY  - 2007/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3101
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3101
        AB  - Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a crucial period for career building. This makes it essential to understand its impact on women’s subsequent earnings trajectories. We find that the wage return to part-time experience is low – negligible in lower skill occupations. Even more important channels contributing to the pay disadvantage of women working part-time are job changing, particularly when this involves occupational downgrading. Downgrading can lead to a permanent pay disadvantage for women following a spell in part-time work.
        KW  - over-qualification
KW  - life-cycle
KW  - earnings trajectories
KW  - part-time work
KW  - occupation
KW  - female employment
KW  - downgrade
        ER  -