Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-time Work Make the Family Happier?

Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work

Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work The European Union’s strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants’ identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It introduces a two-dimensional understanding of ethnic identity, as a...

Gender, work schedules and work/family regulation.

The Gender and Work Technical Committee (TC) of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) is responsible for this issue of the journal WORK. Since many of the authors come from the scholarly tradition of ergonomic analysis of work activity, we should explain that, in this context, the word “regulation” refers to the attempts made byworkers andworkers’ groups to manage job requirements and ...

Gender norms, work hours, and corrective taxation

This paper deals with optimal income taxation based on a model with households where men and women allocate their time between market work and household production, and where households di¤er depending on which spouse has comparative advantage in market work. The purpose is to analyze the tax policy implications of gender norms represented by a market-work norm for men and household-work norm f...

Telephone triage in-hours: does it work?

The effects of applying time management skills on the work-family conflict and work - family enrichment in pre-hospital emergency technicians

Introduction: Work-family conflict is a common problem among pre-hospital emergency technicians. The present study investigates the effects of applying time management skills on family-work conflict and work-family enrichment in pre-hospital emergency technicians. Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, eight emergency bases located in Birjand, Iran, were divided into two blocks: block A a...