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Hours of work and gender identity : does part-time work make the family happier?
Booth, Alison L. (contributor); Ours, Jan C. van (contributor) - 2005
Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and …"Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003222511
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Work and family : marriage, children, child gender and the work hours and earnings of West German men
Choi, Hyung-Jai (contributor); Joesch, Jutta M. (contributor) - 2005
We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters -- a first son increases fathers' work hours by …) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003115147
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Family life in lockdown
Biroli, Pietro; Bosworth, Steven; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2020
pandemic of spring 2020. A high percentage report disruptions in the patterns of family life, manifesting in new work patterns … intra-household cooperation. While the long-run consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown on family life cannot be assessed at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242306
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Flexible jobs make parents happier: evidence from Australia
Yu, Shuye; Postepska, Agnieszka - 2020
been mainly attributed to work-family conflict. This study investigates whether different forms of flexible employment can … subjective well-being suggesting that it relieves the stress related to work-family conflict. Moreover, we find substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290837
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Does broadband internet affect fertility?
Billari, Francesco C.; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2017
-fertility setting, which is well-known for the difficulty to combine work and family life. We exploit a strategy devised by Falck et al …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716082
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Working time flexibility and parental "quality time" spent with children
Magda, Iga; Keister, Roma - 2018
The aim of our paper is to analyse the relationship between working time flexibility and parental time devoted to children. Using data from a large panel survey of Polish households carried out in 2013 and 2014 (Determinants of Educational Decisions Household Panel Survey, UDE) we investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855672
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Teleworking and life satisfaction during COVID-19 : the importance of family structure
Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, … - 2022
We carry out a difference-in-differences analysis of a representative real-time survey conducted as part of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and show that teleworking had a negative average effect on life satisfaction over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This average...
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Undoing gender with institutions : lessons from the German division and reunification
Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2019
Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still differs from West Germany not only by a higher female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992872
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Work-life balance practices, performance-related pay, and gender equality in the workplace : evidence from Japan
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2015
This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender equality in the workplace of human resources management (HRM) practices. Specifically we consider a number of work-life balance (WLB) practices that are developed in part to enhance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346576
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Telework and time use
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2021
This chapter reviews the evidence on the relationship between telework and households' time allocation, drawing heavily on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications of telework for workers' productivity, wages, labor force participation, and well-being. Telework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697778