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- Title
PART-TIME WORK, WAGES, AND PRODUCTIVITY: EVIDENCE FROM BELGIAN MATCHED PANEL DATA.
- Authors
GARNERO, ANDREA; KAMPELMANN, STEPHAN; RYCX, FRANÇOIS
- Abstract
The authors use matched employer-employee panel data on Belgian private-sector firms to estimate the relationship between wage/productivity differentials and the firm’s labor composition in terms of part-time work and gender. Findings suggest that the groups of women and part-timers generate employer rents but also that the origin of these rents differs (relatively lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time work suggest that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female part-timers is associated with wage penalties. The authors conclude that men and women differ with respect to motives for reducing working hours and the types of part-time jobs available to them: women often have to accommodate domestic constraints by downgrading to more flexible jobs, whereas male part-time work is frequently related to training and collectively negotiated reductions in hours that do not affect hourly pay.
- Subjects
BELGIUM; PART-time employment; WAGES; LABOR productivity; PANEL analysis; PRIVATE sector; WOMEN employees; RENT (Economic theory); WORKING hours; FLEXIBLE work arrangements; LITERATURE reviews; WAGE differentials
- Publication
ILR Review, 2014, Vol 67, Issue 3, p926
- ISSN
0019-7939
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0019793914537456