Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-Time Work Puzzle

We investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction, job satisfaction and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel Survey. Men have the highest hours-of-work satisfacti...

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Published in:The Economic journal (London) 2008-02, Vol.118 (526), p.F77-F99
Main Authors: Booth, Alison L, van Ours, Jan C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Children
Correlation analysis
Family studies
Feature: Women's Part-Time Work
Gender differences
Happiness
Hours of work
Households
Income estimates
Job satisfaction
Labour economics
Life satisfaction
Men
Overtime
Panel data
Part time employment
Studies
United Kingdom
Wellbeing
Women
Womens health
Work hours
Work organization
Working hours
Working women
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Summary:We investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction, job satisfaction and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel Survey. Men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how many hours they work. Women present a puzzle. Hours satisfaction and job satisfaction indicate that women prefer part-time jobs irrespective of whether these are small or large but their life satisfaction is virtually unaffected by hours of work.
ISSN:0013-0133
1468-0297
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02117.x