TY  - BOOK
AU  - Denning,Jeffrey T.
AU  - Jacob,Brian
AU  - Lefgren,Lars
AU  - Lehn,Christian vom
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - The Return to Hours Worked Within and Across Occupations: Implications for the Gender Wage Gap 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - April 2019; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - We document two empirical phenomena. First, the observational wage returns to hours worked within occupation is small, and even negative in some specifications. Second, the wage return to average hours worked across occupations is large. We develop a conceptual framework that reconciles these facts, where the key insight is that workers choose jobs as a bundle of compensation and expected hours worked. As an example, we apply this framework to the gender wage gap and show how it can explain the view expressed in recent work that hours differences between men and women represent a large and growing component of the gender wage gap
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w25739
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w25739
ER  -