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| Title: | | Working time preferences, hours mismatch and well-being of couples: Are there spillovers?  |
| Authors: | | Wunder, Christoph Heineck, Guido |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | BERG Working Paper Series 85 |
| Abstract: | | We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Selfreported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch. Particularly underemployment is detrimental for well-being. We further provide first evidence on spillovers from the partner's working time mismatch. However, the spillover becomes insignificant once we control for the partner's well-being. This suggests that well-being is contagious, and the spillover is due to interdependent utilities. Females experience the highest well-being when their partner is working full-time hours. Male wellbeing is unaffected over a wide interval of the partner's working hours. |
| Subjects: | | subjective well-being life satisfaction working time preferences working time mismatch spillovers utility interdependence |
| JEL: | | I31 J21 J22 |
| ISBN: | | 978-3-931052-99-7 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | BERG Working Paper Series, Universität Bamberg
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