%0 Report
        %A Connolly, Sara
%A Gregory, Mary
        %T Part-time Employment Can Be a Life-time Setback for Earnings: A Study of British Women 1975–2001
        %D 2007
        %8 2007 Oct
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3101
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3101
        %X 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.
        %K over-qualification
%K life-cycle
%K earnings trajectories
%K part-time work
%K occupation
%K female employment
%K downgrade