Work-life balance and time use: Lessons from Thailand

Yokying, Phanwin; Sangaroon, Budsara; Sushevagul, Tassanee; Floro, Maria S.

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“…This increase was associated with an increase in women's time devoted to work, while men's time devoted to work decreased. However, Yokying et al (2016) point out that long working hours are a serious problem among women. All of these have negative effects on health and productivity.…”

Section: Time Allocation To Work and Personal Lifementioning

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The Relationship Between Time Allocation for Work and Personal Life and Happiness

Tauraitė,

Aleksandravičienė

2023

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The aim of the article is to identify the relationship between time allocation for work and personal life and happiness by reviewing the theoretical aspects of time allocation for work and personal life and happiness and by presenting an empirical research methodology. A review of the scientific literature is carried out using a comparative analysis and a generalisation method. Empirical research was conducted using statistical data, correlation analyses, non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test, X2 criterion, and data collection methods: questionnaire and time diary. The number of respondents is 1073, the studied population is self-employed persons in Lithuania. Empirical evidence shows that in 2019, self-employed people in Lithuania spent 77.5 percent of their daily time on their personal life (mostly to sleep and leisure) and 22.5 percent on work. With a 95 percent probability, it was found that the time spent on sleep (08:41) by 15-24-year-olds is statistically significantly different from other age groups (H11 confirmed). Although self-employed individuals were most likely to be happy, satisfied with work and satisfied with their personal life in 2019, but those aged 15-24 were the happiest. However, men were more satisfied with work and women were more satisfied with their personal life. There was a statistically significant relationship at a 95 percent confidence level between the level of work-life balance of the self-employed person and happiness (H21 confirmed).

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Section: Time Allocation To Work and Personal Lifementioning

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The Relationship Between Time Allocation for Work and Personal Life and Happiness

Tauraitė,

Aleksandravičienė

2023

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“…The LFS interviewed all individuals from each of these chosen households. The TUS uses an additional random sampling method to select one member who is at least 10 years old from each household to complete a time-use diary (NSO, 2009;Yokying et al, 2016).…”

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Parents’ labour force participation and children’s involvement in work activities: evidence from Thailand

Yokying

Floro

2020

Oxford Development Studies

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This study provides a better understanding of children's engagement in economic work and housework by examining its relationship with parents' labour force participation. It also explores how parents' employment type is associated with children's involvement in work activities. Using Thailand's Labour Force and Time Use Surveys, our multivariate probit regression results show that girls actively participate in economic activities when their mothers are employed, while boys' involvement in such work is positively correlated to both parents' employment. Girls' housework participation is also positively associated with parents' employment, suggesting that their assistance in household chores enable their parents to stay in the labour market. These positive relationships are prevalent particularly among children with either mothers or fathers working informally. Hence, the findings suggest that anti-poverty or expansionary policies aimed at increasing labour force participation without attention to job quality, social protection and care needs can adversely affect children by increasing their need to work.

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“…It can potentially shift household responsibilities to left‐behind family members and place larger work activity demands on their time. Long work hours can also imply high work intensity and work–life imbalance, especially among women, who typically are involved in both income‐generating activities and domestic and care tasks (Yokying et al, 2016). Understanding whether and to what extent migration influences the work time of those who remain in sending areas can facilitate the design and implementation of effective policies and social protection programs to enhance the livelihoods and well‐being of the vulnerable populations in rural Nepal.…”

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“…First, our outcome of interest is time allocation to work activities. Hours of work as a measure conveys information about the quality of life that conventional measures of labour supply do not (Floro, 1995); time allocation has implications for physical and mental health, investment in human capabilities and abilities to perform tasks and maintain relationships in daily life, making time use a critical component of well‐being (Floro, 1995; Yokying et al, 2016). Time use is also a more precise indicator of labour supply and inequality in the division of household labour than labour force participation (Chang et al, 2011; Floro, 1995), which is widely used as a measure in earlier empirical studies (Adhikari & Hobley, 2015; Ghimire, Axinn, & Bhandari, 2021; Halpern‐Manners, 2011; Lenoël & David, 2019; Paris et al, 2005; Shrestha, 2017; World Bank, 2018; Ye et al, 2016).…”

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Impacts of migration on time allocation of those who remain at home in rural Nepal

Yokying

Saksena

Fox

2023

J of Intl Development

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This paper examines the effects of migration on time allocation in work activities of left‐behind family members in Nepal with attention to gender and age. Based on Nepal's Labor Force Survey, we find that, in response to an outmigration of a family member, working‐age women allocate more time towards agriculture and domestic and care work, while the amount of time working‐age men and women spend on collecting water and firewood also rises. Migration also increases girls' and women's time in non‐agricultural responsibilities. Thus, migration generates a loss in household labour supply and reshapes household division of labour in labour‐intensive activities and traditional gender roles.

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Work-life balance and time use: Lessons from Thailand

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The Relationship Between Time Allocation for Work and Personal Life and Happiness

The Relationship Between Time Allocation for Work and Personal Life and Happiness

Parents’ labour force participation and children’s involvement in work activities: evidence from Thailand

Impacts of migration on time allocation of those who remain at home in rural Nepal

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