Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples

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Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the wellbeing of work-linked couples. Our study fills this gap by examining the satisfaction differences between work-linked and non-work-linked partners. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP, 2019), we estimate the effect of working in the same occupation and/or industry on life satisfaction as well as satisfaction with four areas of life: income, work, family and leisure. In the process, we employ pooled OLS estimations and instrumental variable strategies, for instance based on the gender disparity in industries and occupations. Our results suggest that being work-linked increases satisfaction with life as well as income and job satisfaction. These findings are consistent with positive assortative matching and mutual career support between work-linked partners. Our conclusions concern hiring couples as a means of recruiting exceptional talent.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Economics Working Paper Series ; No. 2021/03

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Professional Labor Markets; Occupational Licensing ; Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
• Thema: work-linked couples ; wellbeing ; assortative matching ; relationship quality ; work-life balance ; copreneurs ; occupational gender disparity ; dual career support

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Hennecke, Juliane ; Hetschko, Clemens
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
• (wo): Auckland
• (wann): 2021

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/242590
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ