Gender and the Intensification of Work: Evidence from the European Working Conditions Surveys

Brendan Burchell () and Colette Fagan
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Brendan Burchell: Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Cambridge
Colette Fagan: University of Manchester

Eastern Economic Journal, 2004, vol. 30, issue 4, 627-642

Abstract: This paper uses the European Working Conditions Surveys to examine the intensity of work for male and female employees. The first section gives an overview of the usefulness of the survey for examining European Union (EU) working conditions and shows how women's intensity of work has been increasing faster than that of men, so that by the year 2000 there was little gender difference in the speed of work. Section two demonstrates that the intensity of work has a negative effect on health and work-life balance, and this effect is stronger for women than for men.

Keywords: Female; Gender; Women; Working Conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J22 J28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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