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-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred … working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time … hypothesis in this context. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction …
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happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that … part-time women are more satisfied with working hours than full-time women. Partnered women’s life satisfaction is … increased if their partners work full-time. Male partners’ life satisfaction is unaffected by their partners' market hours but …
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Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …
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The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models itsdeterminants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economicperformance...
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Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-timework and working hours … satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account forinterdependence within the family using data on partnered men …
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This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a two-dimensional framework. It acknowledges the fact that attachments to the home and the host country are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There are three possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely...
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Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the period 1994-1999. We focus on ‘lifelong learning’, fixed-term contracts, part-time versus full-time work, public/private sector affiliation, educational attainment, and the...
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Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on which portion of a risky environment is made salient. Using experimental data we show that salience...
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We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in other studies on single-sex...
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The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.
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