Volume 14, Number 4 (Fall) 1979
Jones, Ethel B., and James E. Long. 1979. "Part-Week Work and Human Capital Investment by Married Women." Journal of Human Resources 14(4):563-578.
This paper uses National Longitudinal Surveys data to examine the relationship between part-week work and the wages and postschool human capital investment of married women. The empirical evidence presented is consistent with the hypothesis that part-week workers and their employers will have relatively lower incentive to invest in on-the-job training since part-week work means fewer hours in the labor market than full-week employment. The effect of part-week work by women on the male-female wage differential is ambiguous because the labor force participation of married women is discontinuous over the life cycle.
The authors are Alumni Professor and Associate Professor of Economics, respectively, Auburn University. This paper is an extension of work conducted in the study "Women and Part-Week Work" financed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Points of view or opinions stated do not necessarily represent the official position or policy of the Department of Labor. The authors wish to thank the editor and referees of this Journal for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper.
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