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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 as well...
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Telework and time use in the United States
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2020 - This version: May 12, 2020
and more time with family on work-at-home days. …
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The marital satisfaction of differently-aged couples
Lee, Wang-Sheng; McKinnish, Terra G. - 2017
We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114591
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Family matters: involuntary parental unemployment during childhood and subjective wellbeing later in life
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris N. - 2018
life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and … experienced during early (0-5 years) and late (11-15 years) childhood leads to lower life satisfaction at ages 18-31. Nevertheless … after controlling for local unemployment, individual and family characteristics, parental job loss expectations, financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131231
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The long-lasting effects of family and childhood on adult wellbeing : evidence from British cohort data
Fleche, Sarah; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2018 - This version: February 2018
adult outcomes, including life satisfaction. We find that the effects of many aspects of childhood do not fade away over … adult life satisfaction at all ages. Of these, emotional health is the strongest. Childhood cognitive performance is more … important than good conduct in explaining adult life satisfaction in the earlier NCDS cohort, whereas this ranking is inverted …
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COVID-19, gender and labour
Corsi, Marcella; Ilkkaracan, Ipek - 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered simultaneously a global health crisis and a global economic crisis which have further deepened existing inequalities along several dimensions, including gender. Increasing gender inequalities in paid and unpaid work has been a primary outcome of the pandemic...
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Decent work and the quality of work and employment
Green, Francis - 2021
This review examines the concept of the quality of work and employment (QWE), including both 'Decent Work' and the narrower concept of 'job quality'. The key axiom is that 'quality' relates to the extent and manner in which working conditions meet people's needs from work. The review emphasises...
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Who is doing the chores and childcare in dual-earner couples during the COVID-19 era of working from home?
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2022
In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period compared to 2015-2019. At the same time, many daycares closed, and the majority of public schools offered virtual or hybrid classrooms, increasing the demand for household-provided...
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Under pressure? : assessing the roles of skills and other personal resources for work-life strains
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Ribar, David C.; Western, Mark - 2018
Many working parents struggle to balance the demands of their jobs and family roles. Although we might expect that … additional resources would ease work-family constraints, theory and evidence regarding resources have been equivocal. This study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012163061
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Works councils and organizational gender policies in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2019
labor market opportunities. This gives rise to the question of what factors lead employers to promote work-family balance … with an increased likelihood that an establishment provides family-friendly practices and promotes equal opportunities of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159293