Coordinated Work Schedules and the Gender Wage Gap

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cubas, German; Juhn, Chinhui; Silos, Pedro
• 署名单位: University of Houston System; University of Houston; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueac086
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 1036-1066
• 关键词: hours constraints; LABOR; elasticities; CONVERGENCE; WORKPLACE; outcomes; skills; micro; MODEL

摘要

This paper studies how coordinated work schedules across jobs contribute to the gender wage gap. Using US time diary data, we construct occupation-level measures of coordinated schedules. Higher coordination is associated with higher wages and a larger gender wage gap. Empirically, women with children allocate more time to household care and are penalised for missing work during peak hours. An equilibrium occupational choice model generates a gender wage gap of 8.9%; most of the gender wage gap is within occupations. If coordination is set to the value of healthcare support across all occupations, the within-occupation gender gap halves.