How damaging is part-time employment to a woman's occupational prospects?

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This paper investigates the causes of the well documented association between part-time employment and low occupational attainment amongst British women. In particular, the relative importance of structural factors and unobserved heterogeneity to the occupational attainment of women who choose to work part-time is investigated. The results indicate that there are significant structural impediments to women in part-time employment obtaining their true occupational potential. However, structural factors explain only part of the relatively low occupational attainment of women in part-time employment: differences in unobserved characteristics between part-time and full-time workers also contribute to the low occupational attainment of women in part-time employment.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1648

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Statistical Simulation Methods: General ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Subject: dynamic labor supply ; heterogeneity ; occupational attainment ; part-time employment

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Prowse, Victoria
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2005

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/33263
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET