For better or worse?: How more flexibility in working time arrangements and fatherhood affect men's working hours in Germany

Susanne Wanger and Ines Zapf
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Susanne Wanger: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany
Ines Zapf: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany

No 201809, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "Many fathers want to spend more time with their children and engage in household, but most of them continue to work full-time after the birth of a child. To better combine work and family, flexible working time arrangements might play a crucial role for fathers. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and fixed-effects regression models, we investigate the impact of flexible working time arrangements on actual working hours of men and fathers. A change from fixed to flexible arrangements is associated with an increase in working hours, but it is smaller for fathers than for non-fathers. Becoming a parent and changing into flexitime or self-determined working hours within the same year is associated with a short-term decrease in working hours. The study shows that employee-oriented working time arrangements help fathers to better combine work and family, but the decrease in working hours is still small." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Beruf und Familie; Kinderbetreuung; Männer; Väter; Arbeitszeitentwicklung; Arbeitszeitflexibilität; Arbeitszeitgestaltung (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2018-03-21
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Published in/as: Journal of Family Research, doi:10.20377/jfr-644

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