Does Housework Lower Wages and Why? Evidence for Britain.
Women working full-time in the UK earn on average about 18% per hour less than men (EOC, 2005). Traditional labour economics has focussed on gender differences in human capital to explain the gender wage gap. Although differences in male and female human capital are recognized to derive from differe...
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Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2007
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