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The Timing of Work and Work-Family Conflicts in Spain : Who Has a Split Work Schedule and Why?
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2009
Spain, as other south-Mediterranean countries, is characterized for the predominance of split work schedules. Split work schedules typically consist of 5 hours of work in the morning (typically from 9 am to 2 pm), followed by a 2 hour break and another 3 hours of work in the afternoon/evening...
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Working Time Flexibility and Parental 'Quality Time' Spent with Children
Magda, Iga - 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/10012919504
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Job Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance : Differences between Homework and Work at the Workplace of the Company
Bellmann, Lutz - 2020
Working remotely can complement and sometimes completely substitute conventional work at the workplace of the company. Until the COVID-19 crisis the share of remote workers was relatively low and empirical investigations show inconsistent results. The recent work has highlighted a dramatic shift...
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Job Anxiety, Work-Related Psychological Illness and Workplace Performance
Jones, Melanie K. - 2011
This paper uses matched employee-employer data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2004 to examine the determinants of employee job anxiety and work-related psychological illness. Job anxiety is found to be strongly related to the demands of the job as measured by...
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The Economics of Prozac : Do Employees Really Gain from Strong Employment Protection?
Wasmer, Etienne - 2021
Health Survey) including details on work-related stress and the consumption of various medications, including anti … hypothesis: we even find positive links between individual employment protection and some dimensions of stress, and weaker but … previous results, as well as falsification exercises: family stress for instance is not correlated with regional EPL, while …
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How the Covid-19 Pandemic Affects Job Stress of Rural Teachers
Li, Haizheng; Liu, Qinyi; Ma, Mingyu - 2021
teaching stress and career development stress and has reduced passion towards the teaching occupation. We investigate the …
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Married with Children : A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information
Cherchye, L. - 2010
We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell, Chiappori and Meghir (2005). In our model, adults' individual preferences do not only depend on own leisure and individual private consumption of market goods. They also depend on...
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Unintended Effects of a Family-Friendly Law in a Segmented Labor Market
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2011
Family-friendly laws may backfire if not all workers with access to the policies use them. Because these policies are costly to the employer, hiring practices may consequently be affected at the detriment of the at-risk population who may end up accessing the policy. We exploit a 1999 Spanish...
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One Man's Blessing, Another Woman's Curse? Family Factors and the Gender-Earnings Gap of Doctors
Schurer, Stefanie - 2012
Using data from a new longitudinal survey of doctors from Australia, the authors test whether observed large gender-pay gaps among general practitioners (GPs) are the result of women's larger willingness to interrupt their careers. On average, female GPs earn A$83,000 or 54% less than male GPs....
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Gender Gaps in Spain : Family Issues and the Career Development of College Educated Men and Women
González de San Román, Ainara - 2012
Our goal in this paper is to focus on highly educated men and women and try to explore the trade‐offs between family and working career in Spain, where changes in female behavior with respect to the labor market have been relatively recent but rather important. We compare male and female...
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