Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35342 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3994
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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