title: Does housework lower wages? Evidence for Britain.
abstract: This paper uses the British Household Panel Survey to present the first estimates of the housework-wage relationship in Britain. Controlling for permanent unobserved heterogeneity, we find that housework has a negative impact on the wages of men and women, both married and single, who work full-time. Among women working part-time, only single women suffer a housework penalty. The housework penalty is uniform across occupations within full-time jobs but some part-time jobs appear to be more compatible with housework than others. We find tentative evidence that the housework penalty is larger when there are children present.
authors.affiliation: University of Essex.
authors.forename: Mark L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Bryan
authors.forename: Almudena
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sevilla-Sanz
mesh_terms: D005191:Family Characteristics / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history; D005192:Family Health / Q000208:ethnology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006796:Household Work / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007182:Income / Q000266:history; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors / Q000266:history; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000208:ethnology; D016387:Women's Health / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history; D014933:Women's Rights / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014931:Women, Working / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology