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

Booth, Alison; van Ours, Jan

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

Date

2008

Authors

Booth, Alison

van Ours, Jan

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

We investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction, job satisfaction and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel Survey.