Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?
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Keywords
Part-time work; Happiness; Gender identity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- 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
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HRM-2006-01-29 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2006-01-29 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-SOC-2006-01-29 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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