Happiness is Flextime |
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Authors: | Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn Lonnie Golden |
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Affiliation: | 1.Rutgers University Camden,Camden,USA;2.Vistula University,Warsaw,Poland;3.Professor of Economics and Labor-Employment Relations,Penn State Abington,Abington,USA |
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Abstract: | We study how work a schedule flexibility (flextime) affects happiness. We use a US General Social Survey (GSS) pooled dataset containing the Quality of Worklife and Work Orientations modules for 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014. We retain only respondents who are either full-time or part-time employees on payrolls. For flextime to be associated with greater happiness, it has to be more than just sometimes flexible or slight input into one’s work schedule, that is, little flextime does not increase happiness. But substantial flextime has a large effect on happiness–the size effect is about as large as that of household income, or about as large as a one-step increase in self-reported health, such as up from good to excellent health. Our findings provide support for both public and organizational policies that would promote greater work schedule flexibility or control for employees. |
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