
handle: 10419/36073 , 1885/38339
Part-time jobs are common among partnered women in many countries. There are two opposing views on the efficiency implications of so many women working part-time. The negative view is that part-time jobs imply wastage of resources and underutilization of investments in human capital since many part-time working women are highly educated. The positive view is that, without the existence of part-time jobs, female labor force participation would be substantially lower since women confronted with the choice between a full-time job and zero working hours would opt for the latter. In the Netherlands, the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a transitional phase that will culminate in many women working full-time. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction, a low desire to change their working hours, and live in partnerships in which household production is highly gendered. Taken together, our results suggest that part-time jobs are what most Dutch women want.
part-time work, happiness, satisfaction, working hours, gender, H Social Sciences (General), Economics and Econometrics, 330, working hours, Working hours, J22, Happiness, Satisfaction, gender; happiness; part-time work; satisfaction; working hours, part-time work; happiness; satisfaction; working hours; gender, Frauenerwerbstätigkeit, Leistungsmotivation, gender, happiness, I31, Niederlande, Demography, HB Economic Theory, J16, SDG 5 - Gender Equality, ddc:330, part-time work;happiness;satisfaction;working hours;gender, Geschlecht, satisfaction, SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth, Lebenszufriedenheit, part-time work, Arbeitszeit, Part-time work, Keywords: Gender, Teilzeitarbeit, jel: jel:J22, jel: jel:I31, jel: jel:J16
part-time work, happiness, satisfaction, working hours, gender, H Social Sciences (General), Economics and Econometrics, 330, working hours, Working hours, J22, Happiness, Satisfaction, gender; happiness; part-time work; satisfaction; working hours, part-time work; happiness; satisfaction; working hours; gender, Frauenerwerbstätigkeit, Leistungsmotivation, gender, happiness, I31, Niederlande, Demography, HB Economic Theory, J16, SDG 5 - Gender Equality, ddc:330, part-time work;happiness;satisfaction;working hours;gender, Geschlecht, satisfaction, SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth, Lebenszufriedenheit, part-time work, Arbeitszeit, Part-time work, Keywords: Gender, Teilzeitarbeit, jel: jel:J22, jel: jel:I31, jel: jel:J16
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