Coordinated Work Schedules and the Gender Wage Gap / German Cubas, Chinhui Juhn, Pedro Silos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cubas, German.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Juhn, Chinhui.

Silos, Pedro.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26548.

NBER working paper series no. w26548

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.

Summary:

Using U.S. time diary data we construct occupation-level measures of coordinated work schedules based on the concentration of hours worked during peak hours of the day. A higher degree of coordination is associated with higher wages but also a larger gender wage gap. In the data women with children allocate more time to household care and are penalized by missing work during peak hours. An equilibrium model with these key elements generates a gender wage gap of 6.6 percent or approximately 30 percent of the wage gap observed among married men and women with children. If the need for coordination is equalized across occupations and set to a relatively low value (i.e. Health care support), the gender gap would fall by more than half to 2.7 percent.

Notes:

Print version record

December 2019.