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| Title: | | Part-time work, gender and job satisfaction: evidence from a developing country  |
| Authors: | | López Bóo, Florencia Madrigal, Lucia Pagés, Carmen |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 3994 |
| Abstract: | | This paper investigates the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction using a recent household survey from Honduras. In contrast to previous work for developed countries, this paper does not find a preference for part-time work among women. Instead, both women and men tend to prefer full- time work, although the preference for working longer hours is stronger for men. Consistent with an interpretation of working part-time as luxury consumption, the paper finds that partnered women with children, poor women or women working in the informal sector are more likely to prefer full-time work than single women, partnered women without children, non-poor women or women working in the formal sector. These results have important implications for the design of family and child care policies in low-income countries. |
| Subjects: | | Job satisfaction gender part-time work job flexibility |
| JEL: | | C13 J16 J28 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090304634 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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