Women in Britain who work part‐time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less
than that of women working full‐time. This gap has widened greatly over the past 30 years …

We investigate the relationship between part‐time work and working hours satisfaction, job
satisfaction and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using …

Older Americans, even those who are long retired, have strong willingness to work,
especially in jobs with flexible schedules. For many, labor force participation near or after …

This article estimates a dynamic model of fertility and labor supply of married women drawn
from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women, 1968–91. It distinguishes part-time …

This study examines the gender wage gap in the USA using two separate cross-sections
from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes …

We investigate the changes in women's participation patterns across 15 EU countries over
the last 20 years using individual data from ECHP and EUSILC databases. Our findings …

Data from two British cohort studies show that women with children have lower wages than
childless women. We develop an innovative decomposition of this' family gap'. The crude …

In this paper we present estimates of the penalty in pay associated with motherhood for 11
European countries. Firstly, analysis of the European Community Household Panel Survey …

This article identifies the part-time wage effect, using hours variation caused by the social
security rules. We show that work hours and wages drop sharply at ages 62 and 65. We …

A recent (1990) national survey is used in an econometric analysis of Japanese women's
hourly pay and employment patterns. It confirms many results from Western industrial …