Part-Time Work, Wages, and Productivity

Abstract

the authors use matched employer-employee panel data on Belgian private-sector firms to estimate the relationship between wage/ productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time work and gender. Findings suggest that the groups of women and part-timers generate employer rents but also that the origin of these rents differs (relatively lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time work suggest that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female part-timers is associated with wage penalties. the authors conclude that men and women differ with respect to motives for reducing working hours and the types of part-time jobs available to them: women often have to accommodate domestic constraints by downgrading to more flexible jobs, whereas male part-time work is frequently related to training and collectively negotiated reductions in hours that do not affect hourly pay.O ver the past three decades, part-time jobs have become a prominent feature of many structural labor market changes in europe and north america, and different scholars have identified part-time employment as one of the main factors underpinning processes of job flexibility (Branine 1999;edwards and Robinson 2000). given that this type of employment concerns mostly women, it also raises issues linked to gender equality and the ways in which contemporary societies reconcile job market participation with nonmarket activities (Connolly and gregory 2010). 456i lrxxx10.

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Impacts of Minimum Wage Increases in the US Retail Sector: Full-time versus Part-time Employment

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“…However, this may not be true because retailers are likely to control both types of workers they employ to maximize their profits. Further, in retail operations, parttime workers play a vital role because they provide flexibility in labor scheduling (Thurik and Van der Wijst, 1984;Wotruba, 1990;Tilly, 1991;McMenamin, 2007;Künn-Nelen, De Grip, and Fouarge, 2013;Garnero, Kampelmann, and Rycx, 2014;Owen, 2015). They are often employed to fill in the gap between full-time working hours and relatively longer store hoursapproximately 75 percent of retail grocery stores in the US are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week-or to serve customers during periods of high demand-over 50 percent of the sales of many US grocery stores are conducted on Saturday and Sunday.…”