López Bóo, Florencia
[Verfasser:in]
;
Madrigal, Lucia
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Pages, Carmen
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Beschreibung:
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