TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Wunder, Christoph
AU  - Heineck, Guido
        TI  - Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers?
        PY  - 2012/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6786
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6786
        AB  - We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Self-reported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch. Particularly underemployment is detrimental for well-being. We further provide first evidence on spillovers from the partner's working time mismatch. However, the spillover becomes insignificant once we control for the partner's well-being. This suggests that well-being is contagious, and the spillover is due to interdependent utilities. Females experience the highest well-being when their partner is working full-time hours. Male wellbeing is unaffected over a wide interval of the partner's working hours.
        KW  - spillovers
KW  - subjective well-being
KW  - life satisfaction
KW  - working time preferences
KW  - working time mismatch
KW  - utility interdependence
        ER  -