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Dual Tracks: Part-time Work in Life-Cycle Employment for British Women

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Sara Connolly
Mary Gregory

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Almost half the women in work in the UK work part-time, but views conflict: does this support a woman`s career or is it a dead-end trap? Cohort data on labour market involvement to age 42 show highly varied pathways through full/part-time/non-employment. Econometric estimation confirms that individual characteristics matter, but labour market history is particularly powerful. Part-time work serves two different functions. A history of full-time work even including spells in part-time or non-employment, tends to lead back to full-time work, so supporting a career. Part-time work combined with non-employment is unlikely to lead to full-time work, and is a trap.

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Paper provided by University of Oxford, Department of Economics in its series Economics Series Working Papers with number 301.

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Keywords: Female Employment Part-time Work Persistence Life-cycle Dynamic Panel Discrete Choice

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  1. Sara Connolly & Mary Gregory, 2007. "Part-time Employment Can Be a Life-time Setback for Earnings: A Study of British Women 1975-2001," Economics Series Working Papers 358, University of Oxford, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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