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Do fathers work fewer paid hours when their female partner is the main or an equal earner? Shireen Kanji
Kanji, Shireen - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 27 (2013) 2, pp. 326-342
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Sharing housework between husbands and wives : how to improve marital satisfaction for working wives in Japan
Kobayashi, Mayu; Kobayashi, Miki; Okumura, Tsunao; … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 18, pp. 1-15
This paper examines whether and how the marital satisfaction of Japanese couples is related to the housework the spouse … satisfaction when the other spouse performs more housework on weekdays. Japanese dual-earner couples are unable to spend more time …
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Women between Part-Time and Full-Time Work : The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Happiness and Life-Satisfaction
Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Romeu Gordo, Laura - 2010
reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by measuring the impact of changes in working-hours on life satisfaction …
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Female Entrepreneurs, Digital Tools, and Work-Life Balance : Evidence from Small Businesses around the World
Lyons, Elizabeth; Zhang, Laurina - 2023
We examine the use of digital technology by female and male entrepreneurs across world. We highlight that digital technology not only confers productivity benefits to the firm but also time-saving benefits to the entrepreneur, which may be particularly consequential for female founders who face...
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Identity, Household Work, and Subjective Well-Being among Rural Women in Bangladesh
Seymour, Greg - 2016
Despite increases in women's employment, significant gender disparity exists in the time men and women spend on household and care work. Understanding how social expectations govern gender roles and contribute to this disparity is essential for designing policies that effectively promote a more...
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Stung by pension reforms: the impact of a change in state pension age on mental health and life satisfaction of affected women
Della Giusta, Marina; Longhi, Simonetta - 2020
Several reforms increased the state pension age (SPA) in the UK and equalised it to age 65 for both men and women. We use panel data and a difference-in-difference approach to comprehensively analyse the direct and indirect effects of these reforms, investigating mechanisms for indirect effects....
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Employment vs. Homestay and the Happiness of Women in the South Caucasus
Torosyan, Karine - 2020
Modern women often face an uneasy choice: dedicating their time to reproductive household work, or joining the workforce and spending time away from home and household duties. Both choices are associated with benefits, as well as non-trivial costs, and necessarily involve some trade-offs,...
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Women's optimism, the gender happiness equaliser : a case of South Africa
Greyling, Talita; Fisher, Bianca - 2020
This paper investigates whether there is co-movement in subjective wellbeing (swb) gender gaps and objective wellbeing (owb) gender gaps over time and whether swb gender gaps are caused by gender differences in endowments or by the different ways men and women value the pre-mentioned. This is...
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Employment vs. homestay and the happiness of women in the South Caucasus
Torosyan, Karine; Pignatti, Norberto - 2020
Modern women often face an uneasy choice: dedicating their time to reproductive household work, or joining the workforce and spending time away from home and household duties. Both choices are associated with benefits, as well as non-trivial costs, and necessarily involve some trade-offs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157187
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Socialism, identity and the well-being of unemployed women
Günther, Tom; Conradi, Jakob; Hetschko, Clemens - 2024
Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We … on family care. We find that East German women suffer significantly more from unemployment than West German women. This …
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