Petrongolo, Barbara (2004) Gender segregation in employment contracts. Journal of the European Economic Association, 2 (2-3). pp. 331-345. ISSN 1542-4774
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This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 E.U. countries, using microdata from the ECHPS. Women are overrepresented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation roughly reflects women's preferences and their need to combine work with child care, in southern Europe part-time jobs are often involuntary and provide significantly lower job satisfaction than full-time ones. Women are also overrepresented in fixed-term contracts in southern Europe, and again this job allocation cannot be explained by preferences or productivity differentials between the two genders. There is thus a largely unexplained residual in the gender job allocation, which may be consistent with some degree of discrimination in a few of the labor markets considered, especially in southern Europe.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28... |
| Additional Information: | © 2004 European Economic Association |
| Divisions: | Centre for Economic Performance Economics |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance |
| JEL classification: | J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination and Creation; Human Capital; Retirement > J28 - Safety; Accidents; Industrial Health; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J7 - Labor Discrimination > J71 - Discrimination J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination and Creation; Human Capital; Retirement > J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Apr 2008 13:53 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 22:48 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/4066 |
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