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| Title: | | Hours of work and gender identity: does part-time work make the family happier?  |
| Authors: | | Booth, Alison L. van Ours, Jan C. |
| Issue Date: | | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 1884 |
| Abstract: | | Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that part-time women are more satisfied with working hours than full-time women. Partnered 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. This finding is consistent with the gender identity hypothesis of Akerlof and Kranton (2000). |
| Subjects: | | part-time work happiness gender identity |
| JEL: | | J22 I31 J16 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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