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Who values the family-friendly aspects of a job? Evidence from the Japanese labour market

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  • Tadashi Sakai
  • Naomi Miyazato

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type="main"> Women with family responsibilities such as child-rearing generally prefer jobs with flexible working conditions. According to the theory of compensating wage differentials, women working in such family-friendly jobs are paid less than those working in family-unfriendly jobs. The present paper investigates whose wages are more greatly affected by the family-(un)friendly aspects of their jobs. Based on a longitudinal survey of Japanese women, we found that among several family-(un)friendly attributes of a job, only commuting time requires a wage premium, and most of the premium is associated with job changes made by part-time-working married women.

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  • Tadashi Sakai & Naomi Miyazato, 2014. "Who values the family-friendly aspects of a job? Evidence from the Japanese labour market," The Japanese Economic Review, Japanese Economic Association, vol. 65(3), pages 397-413, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jecrev:v:65:y:2014:i:3:p:397-413
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