Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part‐Time Work Puzzle
利用英国家庭追踪调查数据，研究兼职工作对工作时间和工作满意度及生活满意度的影响，发现男性偏好标准全职，而女性虽在时间和工作满意度上偏好兼职，但生活满意度几乎不受工时影响。
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 Survey. Men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how many hours they work. Women present a puzzle. Hours satisfaction and job satisfaction indicate that women prefer part-time jobs irrespective of whether these are small or large but their life satisfaction is virtually unaffected by hours of work.