Mary B Gregory
D.Phil., University of Oxford
University Lecturer in Economics
College or Institution: St Hilda’s College
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Research Interests
Summary: Macroeconomics and labour economics: employment patterns, earnings inequality, women in the labour market, the National Minimum Wage.
Current research joint with EU colleagues examines the ‘employment gap’ between the US and the EU. The largest component of this is the EU’s low employment rate for women, comprising shortfalls in jobs in both high-paid and low-paid services. Women’s position in the labour market continues to improve with their rising levels of education and qualifications, and the ‘female bias’ in technological progress with the growth of the service sector and the marketisation of home production.
For women in the UK, part-time work is a major route to combining employment with caring at home. The shift from full-time to part-time work often involves occupational downgrading, which is only sometimes reversed on the return to full-time employment, and typically brings a life-time pay disadvantage. Other research uses the diversity of institutions and approaches across the EU to identify effective policies supporting women’s careers in employment.
Research Group(s)
Recent Working Papers
- Part-time Employment Can Be a Life-time Setback for Earnings: A Study of British Women 1975-2001 (2007)
- Moving Down: Women`s Part-time Work and Occupational Change in Britain 1991-2001 (2007)
- Dual Tracks: Part-time Work in Life-Cycle Employment for British Women (2007)
- Part-time Work - A Trap for Women`s Careers? An Analysis of the Roles of Heterogeneity and State Dependence (2005)
- Overtime Hours in Great Britain Over the Period 1975-1999: A Panel Data Analysis (2000)
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