TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Elsayed, Ahmed
AU  - Grip, Andries de
AU  - Fouarge, Didier
        TI  - Job Tasks, Computer Use, and the Decreasing Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in the UK
        PY  - 2014/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8069
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8069
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - pay penalty
KW  - part-time work
KW  - computer use
KW  - job tasks
        ER  -