Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?

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Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?

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Booth, Alison L
van Ours, Jan C

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Alison Lee Booth

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Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that part-time women are more satisfied with working hours than full-time women. Partnered women's life satisfaction is increased if their partners work full-time. Male partners' life satisfaction is unaffected by their partners' market hours but is increased if they themselves are working full-time. This finding is consistent with the gender identity hypothesis of Akerlof and Kranton (2000).

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- Booth, Alison L. & Ours, Jan C. van, 2006. "Hours of work and gender identity : does part-time work make the family happier?," Discussion Paper 2, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
- Alison Booth & Jan van Ours, 2005. "Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-time Work Make the Family Happier?," CEPR Discussion Papers 507, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. [Downloadable!]
- Alison L. Booth & Jan C. van Ours, 2005. "Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?," IZA Discussion Papers 1884, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]

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I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General Welfare
J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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Alison Booth & Margi Wood, 2006. "Back-to-front Down-under? Estimating the Part-time/Full-time Wage Differential over the Period 2001-2003," CEPR Discussion Papers 525, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. [Downloadable!]
Alison Booth & Margi Wood, 2006. "Back-to-front Down-under? Part-time/Full-time Wage Differentials in Australia," IZA Discussion Papers 2268, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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- Alison Booth & Margi Wood, 2004. "Back-to-front Down-under? Part-time/Full-time Wage Differentials in Australia," CEPR Discussion Papers 482, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. [Downloadable!]

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