Does Work-Time Flexibility Really Improve the Reconciliation of Family and Work?

Konferenzbeitrag

Temporal work flexibility is often viewed as means to improve the reconciliation of family and work. By exploiting theGerman re-unification and the particularities of the labor market of the German Democratic Republic, I show that flexitime allows mothers to spend more time with their children. The additional childcare time is added to the already existing work burden. It is accommodated by reductions in regenerative time and leisure which makes a reconciliation of family and work even more strenuous. A comparison between East andWest suggests a significantly positive endogeneity bias that largely overstates the effectiveness of work-time flexibility on parental time.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2013: Wettbewerbspolitik und Regulierung in einer globalen Wirtschaftsordnung - Session: Women and the Labor Market ; No. G17-V1

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Economics Policies ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Scheffel, Juliane
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (where): Kiel und Hamburg
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/79992
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET