Arbeitspapier
Working time preferences, hours mismatch and well-being of couples: Are there spillovers?
We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Self-reported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch. Particularly underemployment is detrimental for well-being. We further provide first evidence on spillovers from the partner's working time mismatch. However, the spillover becomes insignificant once we control for the partner's well-being. This suggests that well-being is contagious, and the spillover is due to interdependent utilities. Females experience the highest well-being when their partner is working full-time hours. Male wellbeing is unaffected over a wide interval of the partner's working hours.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6786
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
General Welfare; Well-Being
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- Thema
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subjective well-being
life satisfaction
working time preferences
working time mismatch
spillovers
utility interdependence
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Wunder, Christoph
Heineck, Guido
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Wunder, Christoph
- Heineck, Guido
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2012
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