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| Author: | Petrongolo, B. |
| Title: | Gender segregation in employment contracts |
| Journal: | Journal of the European Economic Association
2004 : APR-MAY, VOL. 2:2-3, p. 331-345 |
| Index terms: | employment contracts European Union gender sex discrimination |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries is presented using microdata from the ECHPS. Women are overrepresented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation rougly reflects women's preferences and their need to combine work with child care, in Southern Europe part-time jobs are often involuntary and provide significantly lower job satisfaction than full-time ones. Women are also overrepresented in fixed-term contracts in southern Europe, and again this job allocation cannot be explained by preferences or productivity differentials between the two genders. |
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