Arbeitspapier

Working-time mismatch and mental health

Nationally representative panel survey data for Germany and Australia are used to investigate the impact of working-time mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours) on mental health, as measured by the Mental Component Summary Score from the SF-12. Fixed effects and dynamic linear models are estimated, which, together with the longitudinal nature of the data, enable person-specific traits that are time invariant to be controlled for. The incorporation of dynamics also reduces concerns about the potential effects of reverse causation. The results suggest that overemployment (working more hours than desired) has adverse consequences for the mental health of workers in both countries. Underemployment (working fewer hours than desired), however, seems to only be of significance in Australia.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 843

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health Behavior
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Thema
Australia
Germany
mental health
Mental Component Summary Score (SF-12)
longitudinal data
work hours
working-time mismatch

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Otterbach, Steffen
Wooden, Mark
Fok, Yin King
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2016

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Otterbach, Steffen
  • Wooden, Mark
  • Fok, Yin King
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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