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Hours of work and gender identity: does part-time work make the family happier?

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 increased if their partners work full-time. Male partners' life satisfaction is unaffected by their partners' market hours but is increased if they themselves are working full-time. This finding is consistent with the gender identity hypothesis of Akerlof and Kranton (2000).

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1884

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
General Welfare; Well-Being
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Thema
part-time work
happiness
gender identity

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Booth, Alison L.
van Ours, Jan C.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2005

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Booth, Alison L.
  • van Ours, Jan C.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2005

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