63 sats \ 3 replies \ @oliverweiss OP 2 Apr \ parent \ on: Gender Wage Gap charts
At least in Europe, full time contracts are typically very well defined by law and so officially there isn’t any difference in the working hours. It could be different for management type of jobs though. And so if someone works more, it is on the expense of their own free time. Still you may have jobs like docs in hospitals where you see differences in salaries between male and female doctors.
It's most pronounced in professional class jobs. "Full-time" is defined as an inequality: i.e. working at least 35 hours a week. Within that inequality there's a distribution and in that distribution men work more hours on average.
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I am not so sure about that. I can speak from my own personal experience. I have always had fixed number of hours in the contract without any operator. Currently, 38.5 hours per week. Labor law even says I cannot have more than 44h per week, or similar, not sure about that. And I think this is in general true in many EU countries. Don’t know much about the rest of the world.
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We're at an impasse, then, because I'm only an expert in American labor economics. I would suggest doing a quick search in the econ literature because someone should have done this analysis for somewhere in Europe.
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