WOMEN'S WORKING TIME AND ITS DETERMINANTS

• Authors: Fedáková Denisa , Veira Alberto
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Responses from working women (N=10 619) from 24 European countries (ESS R2) were analysed in this paper. The list of analysed characteristics comprised: female labour supply (measured as number of weekly hours worked) and a list of its potential determinants such as income, education, present life circumstances (children living at home, unpaid help available) and family background (whether mother was working when subject was 14) as well as beliefs regarding equal work opportunities between men and women. Results indicate that e.g. actual female labour supply does not coincide in most countries with women´s expectations. In some countries women reported to work fewer hours than they would like and in other countries they affirmed they work more hours than they would prefer. The relationship between female labour supply and selected determinants was statistically confirmed.

Keywords

EN

DETERMINANTS; EUROPE; LABOUR SUPPLY; WORKING TIME; WORKING WOMEN

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Social Sciences
• Journal: Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 3
• Pages: -
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Fedáková Denisa

• Institute of Social Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic

author

Veira Alberto

• Mgr. Denisa Fedakova, PhD., Spolocenskovedny ustav SAV, Karpatska 5, 040 01 Kosice, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA094715