Cornell Sociology professor Kim Weeden, graduate student Mauricio Bucca and Cornell alumnus Youngjoo Cha's work was featured in a recent New York Times story on the widening gender pay gap.
"It’s only in the last two decades that salaried employees have earned more by working long hours. Four decades ago, people who worked at least 50 hours a week were paid 15 percent less, on an hourly basis, than those who worked traditional full-time schedules. By 2000, though, the wage penalty for overwork became a premium. Today, people who work 50 hours or more earn up to 8 percent more an hour than similar people working 35 to 49 hours, according to a sociology paper using Current Population Survey data by Youngjoo Cha at Indiana University, Kim Weeden at Cornell and Mauricio Bucca at the European University Institute. "
Read the entire New York Times article here.
