Part-Time Work, Gender and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from a Developing Country

Florencia Lopez Boo, Lucia Madrigal and Carmen Pages

No 3994, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction using a recent household survey from Honduras. In contrast to previous work for developed countries, this paper does not find a preference for part-time work among women. Instead, both women and men tend to prefer full- time work, although the preference for working longer hours is stronger for men. Consistent with an interpretation of working part-time as luxury consumption, the paper finds that partnered women with children, poor women or women working in the informal sector are more likely to prefer full-time work than single women, partnered women without children, non-poor women or women working in the formal sector. These results have important implications for the design of family and child care policies in low-income countries.

Keywords: part-time work; gender; job satisfaction; job flexibility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 J16 J28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2009-02
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Published - published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2010, 46 (9), 1543-1571

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