Working Time Mismatch and Subjective Well‐being

Wooden, Mark; Warren, Diana; Drago, Robert

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8543.2008.00705.x

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“…We also find, similarly to Wooden (2009) that atypical working conditions, such as part-time work and work at home, are related to higher well-being but more so for women than men, and the match between employees' working time preferences and part-time work is an important determinant of well-being. One possible explanation is that atypical working conditions might offer employees a higher degree of autonomy and control which are found to be positively related to subjective well-being (Sheldon, Ryan, & Reis, 1996) .…”

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Is There a Subjective Well-Being Premium in Voluntary Sector Employment?

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McKay

2014

Voluntas

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Previous studies have found that employment in the voluntary sector offers a so-called 'job satisfaction premium': despite lower salaries, voluntary sector employees are more satisfied with their jobs than workers in other sectors. This paper examines whether voluntary sector employees also experience a subjective well-being premium. Using data from the UK Annual Population Survey 2012/2013, we find that voluntary sector employees do have higher levels of subjective well-being but this subjective well-being premium is not evenly distributed between men and women. Men score higher on happiness and life satisfaction.However, women in the voluntary sector have lower levels of life satisfaction compared with their counterparts in the public sector. We discuss the implications of our findings for policy and practice in the voluntary sector in the UK.

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confidence: 51%

Is There a Subjective Well-Being Premium in Voluntary Sector Employment?

Kamerāde

McKay

2014

Voluntas

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“…Finally, we provide new results on how well-being is related to working time mismatches, using data on couples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) Study, which allows for comparison with prior findings for Australia (Wooden et al 2009) and Great Britain Van Ours 2008, 2009). …”

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“…2 On the one hand, existing research on working time mismatch did not consider the role of the partner's mismatch (e.g., Wooden et al 2009). On the other hand, research on family well-being has paid only little attention to the partner's employment situation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, empirical evidence shows that many workers want to adjust their hours of work but are not able to do so, pointing to mismatches between actual and preferred working time. 1 Mismatched workers experience a loss in well-being compared to workers who are able to realize their working time preference (Wooden et al 2009). Moreover, the literature on family well-being gives evidence of cross-partner effects of working time Van Ours 2008, 2009) and interdependence of well-being among family members (e.g., Winkelmann 2005, Powdthavee 2009, Schwarze and Winkelmann 2011.…”

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Working time preferences, hours mismatch and well-being of couples: Are there spillovers?

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Heineck

2013

Labour Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. AbstractWe 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.

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“…Societies with a higher proportion of older people tend to have comparatively long leisure hours, since only a fraction of older cohorts are employed. Munostori et al [8] put across the view that as we move from younger to older age groups, people's preference for work over leisure tends to increase, although it cannot be established whether this is the result of the different experiences and value systems of the earlier generations in the sample.…”

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confidence: 99%