Journal Article

Dual careers, time-use and satisfaction levels: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

Authors

Publication date

Sep 2014

Summary

This article empirically examines time-use and its impact on satisfaction levels among dual career households in a post-industrial economy, the UK. Analysis explores the 1993–2009 British Household Panel Survey using panel probit regression. The evidence reveals distinctions in time-use relative to gender, occupations and employment sector. Long hours persist among managers and professionals. The uneven division of household labour, further, continues to burden women with extensive amounts of housework and care. Satisfaction with working hours and amount/use of leisure time are lower among women, especially the public sector professionals. Provision of care, occupation and partner employment characteristics represent important satisfaction determinants present among women, while income (including partner's income) only has relevance among men. Housework does not itself generate dissatisfaction. It is the overload of household tasks, due to inequality in the household division of labour, which constrains many highly skilled working women reducing satisfaction with time-use and life overall.

Published in

Industrial Relations Journal

Volume and page numbers

45 , 443 -464

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irj.12071

ISSN

16

Subjects

Time Use, Labour Market, and Well Being

Links

http://serlib0.essex.ac.uk/record=b1599120~S5

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