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 …

-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred … working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time … hypothesis in this context. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction …

2008 to analyze the relationship between working hours and family happiness in Korea. The Korean labor market is … the 5-day working week in 2004. Hours, job, and life satisfaction have all increased hence. Running fixed-effects ordered … logit models on married couples with children, we analyze hours, job, and life satisfaction separately for women and men …

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 …

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 …

Using three different measures for satisfaction, I investigate gender-specific differences in working time mismatch …. While male satisfaction with life or job is slightly not effected by working more or less hours, only over-time lowers male …

by women with household responsibilities, some members of parliament believed that the new hours may be "family friendly …