Gender and the Minimum Wage

Rubery, Jill; Grimshaw, Damian

doi:10.1057/9780230307834_9

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“…raising the floor of the minimum wage. Rubery and Grimshaw ). In the context of a severe and sustained economic crisis, if the WL framework can neither tap into the deep class inequalities in economic insecurity that have been shown in this paper nor shape policies to ease economic‐WLI, it will indeed be crass and obsolete.…”

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Work–life balance/imbalance: the dominance of the middle class and the neglect of the working class

Warren

2015

British Journal of Sociology

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The paper was stimulated by the question of class in work-life debates. The common conclusion from work-life studies is that work-life imbalance is largely a middle class problem. It is argued here that this assertion is a direct outcome of a particular and narrow interpretation of work-life imbalance in which time is seen to be the major cause of difficulty.Labour market time, and too much of it, dominates the conceptualisation of work-life and its measurement too. This heavy focus on a certain type of work-life imbalance: chronometric overstretched temporal imbalance, has rendered largely invisible from dominant work-life debates the types of imbalance that are more likely to impact the working class. Looking at working class employees in the UK, this paper asserts that 'too few' hours working also has work-life ramifications. It thus argues for the necessity of analysing economic -and not just temporal -roots of work-life imbalance. The paper concludes that if we are to continue to pursue work-life analysis, the conceptualisation of work-life needs to more full incorporate economic-based imbalance if it is to better represent class inequalities.

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Work–life balance/imbalance: the dominance of the middle class and the neglect of the working class

Warren

2015

British Journal of Sociology

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“…Minimum wage increases may be gender-equalizing since women are over-represented in low-wage employment (Rubery and Grimshaw 2011). This can be a particularly useful tool in the face of gender job segregation shaped by norms and stereotypes that reduce women's bargaining power vis-à-vis employers relative to men.…”

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The impact of economic policy and structural change on gender employment inequality in Latin America, 1990–2010

Braunstein

Seguino

2018

Review of Keynesian Economics

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Latin America experienced a decline in household income inequality in the 2000s, in sharp contrast to growing inequality in other regions of the world. This has been attributed to macroeconomic policy, social spending, and increased returns to education. This paper explores this issue from a gender perspective by econometrically evaluating how changes in economic structure and policy have impacted gendered employment and unemployment rates, as well as gender inequality in these variables, using country-level panel data for a set of 18 Latin American countries between 1990 and 2010. Three variables stand out as having consistent gender-equalizing effects in the labor market: social spending, minimum wages, and public investment. Less important or consistent were the effects of external factors (such as terms of trade), economic structure, and GDP growth.

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“…8. The lens of analysis is widened further in some recent studies (Rubery and Grimshaw 2011;Salverda and Mayhew 2009) to include interaction effects with the institutions of employment protection and welfare benefits, on the one hand, and economic conditions relating to aggregate demand and industry competition, on the other. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 Damian Grimshaw,Jill Rubery and Gerhard Bosch 153 9.…”

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The Pay Equity Effects of Minimum Wages: A Comparative Industrial Relations Approach

Grimshaw

Rubery

Bösch

2014

Creative Labour Regulation

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Gender and the Minimum Wage

Cited by 18 publications

References 29 publications

Work–life balance/imbalance: the dominance of the middle class and the neglect of the working class

Work–life balance/imbalance: the dominance of the middle class and the neglect of the working class

The impact of economic policy and structural change on gender employment inequality in Latin America, 1990–2010

The Pay Equity Effects of Minimum Wages: A Comparative Industrial Relations Approach

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