Family Structure and Work Satisfaction: Can Work-Life Balance Policies Foster Happiness in the Workplace

Pérez, Álvaro Martínez

doi:10.1037/e579872011-001

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“…First, it expands the emerging literature in labour economics on family friendly work practices, which include the provision of flexible working hours and annualized hours analyzed here. A growing body of research has investigated the impact of working time arrangements on outcomes such as firm performance, labour productivity and labour turnover (Dex et al 2001), job satisfaction and organisational commitment (Martinez Perez, 2009;Scandura and Lankau, 1997), and worklife balance (Hosking and Western, 2008;Hill et al, 2001). Rather than taking the perspective of firms or individual workers, we look within the household to see how flexible working may affect couples' scheduling decisions.…”

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Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules

Bryan

Sevilla

2014

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Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules *Using previously unexploited data on time scheduling in the employment and household contexts, we investigate the effect of flexible working on couples' coordination of their daily work time schedules in the UK. We consider three distinct dimensions of flexible working: flexibility of daily start and finish times (flexitime), flexibility of work times over the year (annualised hours), and generalised control of working hours. We find that in couples with flexitime there is greater spouse synchronization in daily working times by nearly one hour.The effect is driven by couples with dependent children. However, we find the effect in couples with children of any age (under 16), suggesting it does not stem from the childcare requirements of young children. Robustness checks indicate that flexitime is not endogenous, suggesting that an expansion of flexitime would increase couples' work time coordination.There is less evidence that broader control over working hours increases daily synchronous working time and no evidence that annualised hours increase synchronous time on a daily basis. The weaker relationships with daily synchronous time for these two flexibility measures are consistent with their broader scope (control over amount of hours as well as timing) and longer time span.

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