Part-time work, gender and job satisfaction: evidence from a developing country

Arbeitspapier

This paper investigates the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction using a recent household survey from Honduras. In contrast to previous work for developed countries, this paper does not find a preference for part-time work among women. Instead, both women and men tend to prefer full- time work, although the preference for working longer hours is stronger for men. Consistent with an interpretation of working part-time as luxury consumption, the paper finds that partnered women with children, poor women or women working in the informal sector are more likely to prefer full-time work than single women, partnered women without children, non-poor women or women working in the formal sector. These results have important implications for the design of family and child care policies in low-income countries.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3994

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Estimation: General ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
• Thema: Job satisfaction ; gender ; part-time work ; job flexibility ; Teilzeitarbeit ; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit ; Arbeitszufriedenheit ; Arbeitszeit ; Familienpolitik ; Honduras ; Low-Income Countries

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): López Bóo, Florencia ; Madrigal, Lucia ; Pagés, Carmen
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2009

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35342
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090304634
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ