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Working Time Mismatch and Job Satisfaction – the Role of Employees' Time Autonomy and Gender

Grund, Christian; Tilkes, Katja - 2021

Evidence shows that working time mismatch, i.e. the difference between actual and desired working hours, is negatively related to employees' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the potential moderating effect of working time autonomy on this...

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Flexibility of Working Time Arrangements and Female Labor Market Outcome

Magda, Iga; Lipowska, Katarzyna - 2022

We use data from the 2019 EU Labor Force Survey to study gender and parenthood gaps in two dimensions of flexibility in working time arrangements in 25 European countries. We find that overall in Europe, there is no statistically significant gender difference in access to flexible work...

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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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Covid-19, Family Stress and Domestic Violence : Remote Work, Isolation and Bargaining Power

Beland, Louis-Philippe - 2020

We investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic violence and family stress. Our empirical analysis relies on a … may affect family stress and domestic violence. We find no evidence that employment status and work arrangements are … related to higher self-reported levels of family stress and violence in the home due to confinement, suggesting that remote …

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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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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...

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The Role of Nonstandard Work Hours in Maternal Caregiving for Young Children

Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - 2021

This paper examines the effect of the timing of mothers' daily work schedules on the amount of maternal caregiving she engages in on that same day. We look at total caregiving time on weekdays, early morning and evening caregiving time on weekdays, and total caregiving time on weekends. Since...

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Parents Under Stress Â Evaluating Emergency Childcare Policies During the First Covid-19 Lockdown in Germany

Schüller, Simone; Steinberg, Hannah - 2022

parenting behavior? Can emergency childcare policies during a pandemic mitigate increases in parental stress and negative …

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And I Will Try to Fix You : A Study of Heterogeneity in Job Satisfaction with Implications for Flexible Employment Contracts

Chongvilaivan, Aekapol - 2011

This paper is an empirical study of slope heterogeneity in job satisfaction. It provides evidence from the generalized ordered probit models that different job characteristics tend to have different distributional impacts on the overall job satisfaction. For instance, standard models tend to...

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Does Labor Legislation Benefit Workers? Well-Being after an Hours Reduction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2014

Are workers in modern economies working "too hard" – would they be better off if an equilibrium with fewer work hours were achieved? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and Koreans over a period when hours of work were cut exogenously because employers suddenly faced an...

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