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Hours of work and gender identity : does part-time work make the family happier?
Booth, Alison L. (contributor); Ours, Jan C. van (contributor) - 2005
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 …"Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003222511
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Hours of Work and Gender Identity : Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?
van Ours, Jan C. - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783390
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Flexible jobs make parents happier: evidence from Australia
Yu, Shuye; Postepska, Agnieszka - 2020
been mainly attributed to work-family conflict. This study investigates whether different forms of flexible employment can … subjective well-being suggesting that it relieves the stress related to work-family conflict. Moreover, we find substantial …-years-olds. These results are consistent with a typical intra-household time allocation of parents in Australia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290837
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Bargaining for work-family benefits in the UK
Milner, Susan - In: The journal of industrial relations 64 (2022) 1, pp. 124-146
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012880060
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Unions and Pay Equity Bargaining in Canada
Hart, Susan M. - 2010
Provincial government pay equity policies require the negotiation of pay equity in unionized workplaces. The methodology is complex and unions have to be knowledgeable and committed to rectifying discriminatory wages. According to the literature, Canadian unions have shown varied levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138929
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Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career : Gender, Unionism, and Sector
Addison, John T. - 2012
This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages, thereby complementing extant studies of the NLSY that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099690
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What Do Unions Do for Mothers? Paid Maternity Leave Use and the Multifaceted Roles of Labor Unions
Park, Tae-Youn - 2017
The authors present a four-fold conceptual framework of union roles for enhancing workers' paid maternity leave use, consisting of availability, awareness, affordability, and assurance. Using a panel data set constructed from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, workers represented by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954764
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Economic Development and Sectoral Unions in China
Friedman, Eli - 2014
Drawing on qualitative fieldwork in China's Guangdong and Zhejiang Provinces, the author asks how post-socialist unions respond to worker unrest and why the development of sectoral-level bargaining has been uneven in different regions of China. While Zhejiang has had relative success in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055320
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Do Unions Promote Gender Equality?
Lurie, Lilach - 2021
collective agreements is to support their family; the mothers’ role is to raise the children. Thus several collective agreements … working fathers. Significant collective agreements grant working fathers, but not working mothers, with a special “family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215041
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Men, women and unions
Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2016
The paper re-examines the question of why unions might have declined despite the 'influx' of women, their risk-averse constituents, into British workplaces. It argues that given unions' role in minimising risk, membership should have been boosted. The paper reviews different strands of the...
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