Volume 28, Number 1 (Winter) 1993
Ermisch, John F., and Robert E. Wright. 1993. "Wage Offers and Full-Time and Part-Time Employment by British Women." Journal of Human Resources 28(1):111-133.
Strong evidence in support of the hypothesis that women receive lower wage offers in part-time jobs than in full-time jobs is provided by estimation of wage offer functions for British women, which control for self-selection into these two types of jobs. Analysis of married women's employment decisions indicates that the difference in a woman's expected wage offers between full-time and part-time employment is an important determinant of whether she works full time, while husband's income mainly affects the decision of whether to work. In addition, it appears that women who work despite having observed characteristics that discourage employment are much more likely to work part time.
John F. Ermisch is the Bonar-MacFie Professor of Political Economy at the University of Glasgow. Robert E. Wright is a Lecturer of Political Economy and Deputy Chairman of the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Glasgow. The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Economic and Social Research Council. They are also indebted to anonymous referees and to Professor Alice Nakamura for their valuable comments. The data used in this article can be obtained beginning in May 1993 through May 1996 from the authors at the following address: Department of Political Economy, Adam Smith Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, G12 8RT, U.K.
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