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Unhappiness and job finding
Gielen, Anne; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
happiness, which might explain why at least some workers need to be activated. In addition to that, we find that even though … unemployed who experience a drop in happiness search more actively for a job, it does not speed up their job finding. Apparently …
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Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?
Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. 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...
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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle
Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, 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...
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Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?
Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that …
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