%0 Report
        %A Bóo, Florencia López
%A Madrigal, Lucia
%A Pagés, Carmen
        %T Part-Time Work, Gender and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from a Developing Country
        %D 2009
        %8 2009 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3994
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3994
        %X 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.
        %K part-time work
%K gender
%K job satisfaction
%K job flexibility