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Dual careers, time‐use and satisfaction levels: evidence from the B ritish Household Panel Survey
Author(s) -
Wheatley Daniel,
Wu Zhongmin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/irj.12071
Subject(s) - british household panel survey , panel data , panel survey , demographic economics , ordered probit , probit model , probit , time use survey , inequality , labour economics , dual (grammatical number) , job satisfaction , economics , working hours , work (physics) , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , art , mathematics , literature , econometrics , management , engineering
This article empirically examines time‐use and its impact on satisfaction levels among dual career households in a post‐industrial economy, the UK . Analysis explores the 1993–2009 B ritish Household Panel Survey using panel probit regression. The evidence reveals distinctions in time‐use relative to gender, occupations and employment sector. Long hours persist among managers and professionals. The uneven division of household labour, further, continues to burden women with extensive amounts of housework and care. Satisfaction with working hours and amount/use of leisure time are lower among women, especially the public sector professionals. Provision of care, occupation and partner employment characteristics represent important satisfaction determinants present among women, while income (including partner's income) only has relevance among men. Housework does not itself generate dissatisfaction. It is the overload of household tasks, due to inequality in the household division of labour, which constrains many highly skilled working women reducing satisfaction with time‐use and life overall.