Long Work Hours, Part-Time Work, and Trends in the Gender Gap in Pay, the Motherhood Wage Penalty, and the Fatherhood Wage Premium

Long Work Hours, Part-Time Work, and Trends in the Gender Gap in Pay, the Motherhood Wage Penalty, and the Fatherhood Wage Premium

We assess how changes in the social organization and compensation of work hours over the last three decades are associated with changes in wage differentials among mothers, fathers, childless women, and childless men. We find that large differences between gender and parental status groups in long w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kim A. Weeden, Youngjoo Cha, Mauricio Bucca
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2016-08-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Subjects:
gender inequality
family wage gap
gender wage gap
motherhood wage penalty
fatherhood wage premium
work hours
long work hours
overwork
Online Access:http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.4.03

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