Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and … happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that … part-time women are more satisfied with working hours than full-time women. Partnered women's life satisfaction is …

Recent studies have found that self-reported life satisfaction drops during the transition into parenthood which has … been mainly attributed to work-family conflict. This study investigates whether different forms of flexible employment can … alleviate this drop in parental life satisfaction during this period. A fixed-effects analysis in an event study framework using …

satisfaction ; labor force participation ; part-time ; maternal employment ; work-family conflict … involuntarily out of the labor force or in part-time employment because of family constraints (e.g., due to lack of available and … involuntary familyrelated non-participation and part-time employment on mothers' life satisfaction. Controlling for unobserved …

involuntarily out of the labor force or in part-time employment because of family constraints (e.g., due to lack of available and … involuntary familyrelated non-participation and part-time employment on mothers' life satisfaction. Controlling for unobserved … of family constraints (of being in short/long part-time employment). Moreover, in terms of overall happiness among …

involuntarily out of the labor force or in part-time employment because of family constraints (e.g., due to lack of available and … involuntary familyrelated non-participation and part-time employment on mothers' life satisfaction. Controlling for unobserved … of family constraints (of being in short/long part-time employment). Moreover, in terms of overall happiness among …

burden with respect to gainful employment and providing care. We propose a family working time model that incentivizes … fathers and – contrary to most conventional family policies – actively promotes the dual earner/dual carer paradigm. Combining … microsimulation and labor supply estimation, we empirically analyze the potential of the family working time model in the German …

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 …

burden with respect to gainful employment and providing care. We propose a family working time model that incentivizes … fathers and – contrary to most conventional family policies – actively promotes the dual earner/dual carer paradigm. Combining … microsimulation and labor supply estimation, we empirically analyze the potential of the family working time model in the German …

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 …