Wahlberg, Roger () (Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University)
Abstract
This study analyzes the part-time penalty in Sweden using quantile regression. We find that the estimated part-time wage differential is negative across the whole wage distribution. OLS overestimates the part-time penalty at the bottom of the distribution, and underestimates it at the top. The estimated part-time wage gap rises across the distribution, and there is a sharp acceleration in the increase starting around the 75th percentile, especially for men. Consequently, we find evidence of a glass ceiling in part-time employment for both men and women in the Swedish labor market.
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Paper provided by Göteborg University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers in Economics with number
315.
Length: 23 pages Date of creation: 15 Sep 2008 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:hhs:gunwpe:0315
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