Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers?
By Christoph Wunder, G. Heineck. Social Science Research Network, 2012
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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.
Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science
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- What is the relationship between long working hours, over-employment, under-employment and the subjective well-being of workers? Longitudinal evidence from the UK (2015, methodology): “By contrast, there is no SWB penalty for over-employment in Germany (Wunder and Heineck, 2013).”