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Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part‐time Work Make the Family Happier?
Author(s) -
BOOTH ALISON L.,
VAN OURS JAN C.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
economica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.532
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1468-0335
pISSN - 0013-0427
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2007.00670.x
Subject(s) - full time , paid work , life satisfaction , work (physics) , identity (music) , panel study of income dynamics , working time , work hours , working hours , british household panel survey , work time , demographic economics , family life , panel survey , panel data , psychology , time use survey , part time employment , social psychology , labour economics , economics , sociology , gender studies , economic growth , econometrics , mechanical engineering , physics , acoustics , engineering
Taking into account interdependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part‐time work and family wellbeing. We use panel data from the Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. We find that part‐time women are more satisfied with working hours than full‐time women, and that women's life satisfaction is increased if their partners work full‐time. Male partners' life satisfaction is unaffected by their partners' market hours but is increased if they themselves are working full‐time. Our results are consistent with the gender identity hypothesis.