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Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?
Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a...
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Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-time Work Make the Family Happier?
Booth, Alison; Ours, Jan van - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005
happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977281
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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle
Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123569
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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is NOT a Paradox
Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score … and Oswald, when we analyse life satisfaction in place of happiness, and when we measure development using GDP per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136466
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Unemployment and Psychological Well-Being
Carroll, Nick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005
Who records the largest drops in life satisfaction when they move into unemployment? Do men experience a larger drop in life satisfaction than women? Do Australians and Americans record a larger drop than Europeans? Using an Australian panel data-set (the Household Income and Labour Dynamics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032810
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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is Not a Paradox
Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005
In “Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,” Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score … and Oswald, when we analyse life satisfaction in place of happiness, and when we measure development using GDP per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032820
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Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?
Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498075
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Unhappiness and job finding
Gielen, Anne; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
happiness, which might explain why at least some workers need to be activated. In addition to that, we find that even though … unemployed who experience a drop in happiness search more actively for a job, it does not speed up their job finding. Apparently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083392
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Work and Television
Corneo, Giacomo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Nowadays, people in OECD countries spend about as much time watching television as earning a living. In this Paper I report a puzzling fact about those time uses: television viewing and work hours are positively correlated across countries. A simple model based on complementarities in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792338
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Payment Evasion
Buehler, Stefan; Halbheer, Daniel; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper models payment evasion as a source of profit by letting the firm choose the purchase price and the fine imposed on detected payment evaders. For a given price and fine, the consumers purchase, evade payment, or choose the outside option. We show that payment evasion leads to a form of...
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