Assessing the Importance of Male and FemalePart-Time Work for the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain

This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, andworkplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men andwomen in full and part-time jobs in Britain. A four-way gender-working time split (male fulltimers,male part-timers, female full-timers and female part-timers) is considered, andallowance is explicitly made for the possibility of both workplace and occupationalsegregation across each group...