Changes in working time have important economic, social and environmental implications.
However, research on workers' preferences is highly fragmented across disciplines and …

Gender is one of the most important topics in the field ofsociology, and as a system of social
practices it inspires amultitude of theoretical approaches. The Sociology of Genderoffers an …

Workers' ability to control their work schedules and hours varies significantly among
industrialized countries. We integrate and extend prior research from a variety of literatures …

The child‐care and fertility hypothesis has been in the literature for a long time and is
straightforward: As child care becomes more available, affordable, and acceptable, the …

This study uses nationally representative panel survey data for Australia to identify the role
played by mismatches between hours actually worked and working time preferences in …

Overall job satisfaction is likely to reflect the combination of partial satisfactions related to
various features of one's job, such as pay, security, the work itself, working conditions …

This paper examines the association between education and subjective wellbeing. The
evidence on this relationship is scarce, inconsistent and poorly understood, and reports of a …

This study meta-analytically examines correlations between dimensions of work–nonwork
conflict (work-to-nonwork and nonwork-to-work conflict) and burnout subscales (exhaustion …

Working time flexibility comprises a wide variety of arrangements, from part-time, overtime, to
long-term leaves. Theoretical approaches to grouping these arrangements have been …

The crisis has deepened pre-existing concerns regarding low-wage and non-standard
employment. Countries where unemployment increased most strongly during the crisis …