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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2012
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 471
Verlag: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Zusammenfassung: 
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.
Schlagwörter: 
subjective well-being
life satisfaction
working time preferences
working time mismatch
spillovers
utility interdependence
JEL: 
I31
J21
J22
Dokumentart: 
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