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Cross-Country Evidence on the Relationship between Overwork and Skilled Women's Job Choices

  • Patricia Cortes
  • Jessica Pan
American Economic Review
vol. 107, no. 5, May 2017
(pp. 105-09)
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Abstract

This paper examines the relationship between the prevalence of overwork and skilled women's labor force participation and occupational choice. Using country-level variation, we find a negative relationship between the share of males working 50+ hours a week and the LFP of young married women, with the correlation being much smaller for single women and older married women. Using a panel of occupations across countries, we find that overwork in an occupation is negatively correlated with the share of married women working in that occupation. This finding is robust to controlling for the occupational distribution of groups with fewer household responsibilities.

Citation

Cortes, Patricia, and Jessica Pan. 2017. "Cross-Country Evidence on the Relationship between Overwork and Skilled Women's Job Choices." American Economic Review, 107 (5): 105-09. DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20171064

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JEL Classification

  • J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
  • J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
  • J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity