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satisfaction with four areas of life: income, work, family and leisure. In the process, we employ pooled OLS estimations and …Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially … the satisfaction differences between work-linked and non-work-linked partners. Using data from the German Socio …
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. Additionally, satisfaction with family life increases, which may be a hidden benefit of being unemployed. In contrast, satisfaction … higher satisfaction with free time, while time spent on hobbies increases to a lesser extent than home production …
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Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer diagnosis (CD), on the health and well-being of an...
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We conducted an experiment in which we hired workers under different types of contracts to evaluate how flexible working time affects on-the-job productivity in a routine job. Our approach breaks down the global impact on productivity into sorting and behavioral effects. We find that all forms...
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The standard literature on working time has modelled the decisions of firms in a deterministic framework in which firms can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real options approach, which allows us to investigate the...
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The standard literature on working time has modelled the decisions of firms in a deterministic framework in which firms can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we consider the impact of uncertainty and real options on the decision of...
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This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours through instrumental variables techniques. In particular, we exploit exogenous variation in working hours from statutory workweek regulations in the German public sector as an...
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:A family panel. Employing a DDD and IV approach we identify medium-term ITT and LATE effects and find that while emergency care … policies did not considerably affect parents' life satisfaction, partnership satisfaction or mental health, they have been …
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This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure … competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer …- versus family choice as a major determinant of trade adjustment costs. While older workers respond to the shock rather …
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Uneven family responsibilities are at the root of gender gaps. Using a new dataset covering all firm-level agreements … negotiation of family-friendly policies with management. We compare firms that operate under the same set of labor regulations but …
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