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Overwork and the Slow Convergence in the Gender Gap in Wages

Cha, Youngjoo, Weeden, Kim A.·2014·American Sociological Review
DOI 10.1177/0003122414528936
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Despite rapid changes in women’s educational attainment and continuous labor force experience, convergence in the gender gap in wages slowed in the 1990s and stalled in the 2000s. Using CPS data from 1979 to 2009, we show that convergence in the gender gap in hourly pay over these three decades was attenuated by the increasing prevalence of “overwork” (defined as working 50 or more hours per week) and the rising hourly wage returns to overwork. Because a greater proportion of men engage in overwork, these changes raised men’s wages relative to women’s and exacerbated the gender wage gap by an estimated 10 percent of the total wage gap. This overwork effect was sufficiently large to offset the wage-equalizing effects of the narrowing gender gap in educational attainment and other forms of human capital. The overwork effect on trends in the gender gap in wages was most pronounced in professional and managerial occupations, where long work hours are especially common and the norm of overwork is deeply embedded in organizational practices and occupational cultures. These results illustrate how new ways of organizing work can perpetuate old forms of gender inequality.

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Authors
Cha, Y., & Weeden, K. A.
Venue
American Sociological Review
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2014-04-08
Volume
79
Issue
3
Pages
457-484
ISSN
  • 0003-1224 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-8271
DOI
10.1177/0003122414528936
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499
References
93
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63.11
Type
journal article
Language
en
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