Cha, Youngjoo (2014) The wage premium for working long hours has helped lead to the stagnation of the gender wage gap. LSE American Politics and Policy (28 May 2014). Website.
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Why has the wage gap between men and women remained stubbornly persistent in recent decades? Using new research, Youngjoo Cha argues that a major reason may be the rise of compensation for working long hours, or ‘overworking’. She writes that while in the 1970s, workers who put in more than 50 hours per work experienced a per-hour wage penalty, by the end of the 2000s, overworkers earned about 6 percent more per hour than their full-time counterparts, and that the persistence of traditional gender roles means that men tend to overwork more than women. If the relative hourly wages for overwork had stayed constant over the last three decades, the gender gap in wages would be about 10 percent smaller than it is today.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 The Author |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Aug 2014 14:02 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 13:44 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/58907 |
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