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For better or worse? : How more flexibility in working time arrangements and fatherhood affect men's working hours in Germany

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  • Wanger, Susanne

    (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany)

  • Zapf, Ines

    (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany)

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"Many fathers want to spend more time with their children and engage in household, but most of them continue to work full-time after the birth of a child. To better combine work and family, flexible working time arrangements might play a crucial role for fathers. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and fixed-effects regression models, we investigate the impact of flexible working time arrangements on actual working hours of men and fathers. A change from fixed to flexible arrangements is associated with an increase in working hours, but it is smaller for fathers than for non-fathers. Becoming a parent and changing into flexitime or self-determined working hours within the same year is associated with a short-term decrease in working hours. The study shows that employee-oriented working time arrangements help fathers to better combine work and family, but the decrease in working hours is still small." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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  • Wanger, Susanne & Zapf, Ines, 2018. "For better or worse? : How more flexibility in working time arrangements and fatherhood affect men's working hours in Germany," IAB-Discussion Paper 201809, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].
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    Keywords

    Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; Beruf und Familie ; Kinderbetreuung ; Männer ; Väter ; Arbeitszeitentwicklung ; Arbeitszeitflexibilität ; Arbeitszeitgestaltung;
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    JEL classification:

    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • J81 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Working Conditions

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