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Overworked or Underemployed? Actual and Preferred Household Employment Patterns in the Context of the Economic Crisis

    Nadia Steiber, Barbara Haas

VID Working Papers, pp. 1-20, 2021/11/29

doi: 10.1553/0x003d0685


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doi:10.1553/0x003d0685

Abstract

This article revisits work hour mismatches at the couple level. Most of what has beenpublished on actual and preferred employment arrangements of couples in Europe is basedon international survey data from the late 1990s. The aim is to present new data oncouples’ actual and preferred employment arrangements using data from Round 5 of theEuropean Social Survey (2010-2012). The article discusses trends in the degree to whichcouples’ employment arrangements are in line with preferences and how work hourmismatches may be related to the current economic crisis.

Keywords: Couple employment, European Social Survey, labour supply, preferences, economic crisis