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Women between Part-Time and Full-Time Work: The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Happiness and Life-Satisfaction
Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Gordo, Laura Romeu - 2010
This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600911
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Unveiling shadows : the impact of unemployment on child maltreatment
Brown, Dan; De Cao, Elisabetta - 2024
Child maltreatment is pervasive, often undetected, yet harmful. We investigate whether it is impacted by unemployment … from 2004 to 2012. Using an industry shift-share instrument to identify county-level unemployment effects, we find a … investments. Expenditures on children remain stable during recessions. Instead, higher local-area unemployment rate reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014487199
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Women between Part-Time and Full-Time Work: The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Happiness and Life-Satisfaction
Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Gordo, Laura Romeu - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636405