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Tweet[IWS] Dublin Foundation: WORKING TIME AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE IN A LIFE COURSE PERSPECTIVE [6 February 2013]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
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New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
Working time and work–life balance in a life course perspective [6 February 2013]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef1273.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2012/73/en/1/EF1273EN.pdf
[full-text, 76 pages]
| Author: | Anxo, Dominique; Franz, Christine; Kümmerling, Angelika |
| Summary: | Understanding how working time is organised and how this is impacting on balance of work versus private life is of fundamental importance. This general statement is very much in accordance with the main objective of the Europe 2020 employment strategy, stating that at least 75% of the population aged 20–64 should be employed by 2020, necessitating in many Member States a significant increase in women's labour market participation. Drawing on data from Eurofound's fifth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), based on interviews with more than 38,000 respondents in 34 countries, this report documents the prevailing working time patterns of employees, the self-employed and lone parents across five country clusters. It also analyses the relationship between paid employment and domestic activities, work–life balance and working time preferences across the life course. An executive summary is also available. |
Contents
Executive summary
Introduction
1. Data description and methodology
2. Working time arrangements
3. Work–life balance across the life course
4. Working time preferences across the life course
5. Domestic activities across the life course
Bibliography
Annex: The European Working Conditions Survey series
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