Do Workplace Flexibility Policies Influence Time Spent in Domestic Labor?

Self-Employment, Workplace Flexibility, and Maternal Labor Supply: A Life-Cycle Model

This paper quantifies the value of self-employment as a flexible work alternative for mothers with young children and estimates how the additional flexibility affects women’s long-term employment and fertility. On average, self-employed women have more control over their work schedule, hours and location than wage and salary employed women. I incorporate self-employment into a life-cycle model ...

Application of religion in domestic policies of Al-Murābiṭūn

Tribal rivalries, the election of a religious leader, and fanaticism to Mālikī's religion initiated Al-Murābiṭūns movement in the 5th century AH in Morocco. After gaining power, Al-Murābiṭūns needed to adopt domestic policies proper to their position to survive and succeed over domestic opponents. They were able to use Mālikī's jurists’ capacities comprehensively in government structure, includ...

What Do Unions Do to the Workplace? Union Impact on Management and HRM Policies

Gender differences in time spent on parenting and domestic responsibilities by high-achieving young physician-researchers.

BACKGROUND Female physician-researchers do not achieve career success at the same rate as men. Differences in nonprofessional responsibilities may partially explain this gap. OBJECTIVE To investigate the division of domestic labor by gender in a motivated group of early-career physician-researchers. DESIGN Nationwide postal survey between 2010 and 2011. SETTING United States. PARTICIPAN...

Workplace flexibility: from research to action.

Ellen Galinsky, Kelly Sakai, and Tyler Wigton explore the "time famine" among American workers-the continuing sense among employees of not having enough time to manage the multiple responsibilities of work and personal and family life. Noting that large shares of U.S. employees report feeling the need for greater workplace flexibility to enable them to take better care of family responsibilitie...