Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Fouarge D. 
Author-Name: Grip A. de
Author-Name: Elsayed A.E.A. 
Author-workplace-name: ROA
Title: Job tasks, computer use, and the decreasing part-time pay penalty for women in the UK
Abstract: Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The convergence in computer use between part-time and full-time workers within these occupations explains a large share of the decrease in the part-time pay penalty. However, the lower part-time pay penalty is also related to lower wage returns to reading and writing which are performed more intensively by full-time workers. Conversely, the increasing returns to influencing has increased the part-time pay penalty despite the convergence in the influencing task input between part-time and full-time workers. The relative changes in the input and prices of computer use and job tasks together explain more than 50 percent of the decrease in the part-time pay penalty.
Keywords: Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials; 
Classification-JEL: J24; J31; .
Series:  Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2014
Number: 003
File-URL: http://pub.maastrichtuniversity.nl/448db6b9-b985-47f1-aaec-c72224f4fcfe
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File-Size: 708726
Handle: RePEc:unm:umaror:2014003