Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-Time Work Puzzle

By Alison L. Booth, J. van Ours. 2008

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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In Demography

1. Andy Charlwood
2. G. Heineck
3. Christoph Wunder
4. U. Kambhampati
5. David Angrave

In Gender Studies

1. Andy Charlwood
2. G. Heineck
3. Christoph Wunder
4. U. Kambhampati
5. David Angrave

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Andy Charlwood
2. G. Heineck
3. Christoph Wunder
4. David A Spencer
5. U. Kambhampati
6. David Angrave

Citations in the corpus

• Not all that it might seem: why job satisfaction is worth studying despite it being a poor summary measure of job quality (2012, background): “While there is evidence that general values may be fixed in childhood and that life aspirations shift slowly (Inglehart, 1977), research into work orientations suggests that norms and expectations related to work can change rapidly in response to changes inside and outside of the workplace (Beynon a”
• Gender and Life Satisfaction in the UK (2011, background): “While Booth and van Ours ( 2008 ) found that being employed part time increased women's job satisfaction but not overall life satisfaction, we find that though women's life satisfaction increases with more employment hours, it does so at a decreasing rate.”
• Commuting times - The role of gender, children and part-time work (2012, neutral): “…women with childcare responsibilities with Waldfogel (2007) describing the 'family penalty' faced by mothers in terms of lower wages, as women with children earn less than other women, while the reverse is the case for men, with fathers earning more than non-fathers (Booth and van Ours 2008).”
• Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers? (2012, methodology): “…We thank David Kiss, TomMroz, Rainer Winkelmann, Michael Zibrowius, participants of the Scottish Economic Society 2012 Conference, of the Austrian Economic Association Meeting 2012, and of the International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference 2012 for helpful comments.”