Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules
Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules
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10.2139/ssrn.2465339
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2014-07
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M. Bryan;Almudena Sevilla Sanz
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作者：
M. Bryan;Almudena Sevilla Sanz
使用以前未开发的数据在就业和家庭背景下的时间安排，我们调查了弹性工作对夫妇协调他们的日常工作时间表在英国的影响。我们考虑了弹性工作的三个不同维度：每天开始和结束时间的灵活性（弹性时间），全年工作时间的灵活性（年化工作时间），以及工作时间的一般控制。我们发现，在实行弹性工作时间的夫妇中，配偶在日常工作时间上的同步度更高，接近一个小时。这种影响是由有依赖子女的夫妇造成的。然而，我们在有任何年龄（16岁以下）孩子的夫妇中发现了这种影响，这表明它不是源于幼儿的育儿需求。鲁棒性检验表明弹性工作时间不是内生的，这表明弹性工作时间的扩大会增加夫妻工作时间的协调性。很少有证据表明对工作时间的更广泛控制会增加每日同步工作时间，也没有证据表明年化工作时间会增加每日同步工作时间。这两种灵活性措施与每日同步时间的关系较弱，这与它们更广泛的范围（对小时数和时间的控制）和更长的时间跨度相一致。
Using previously unexploited data on time scheduling in the employment and household contexts, we investigate the effect of flexible working on couples' coordination of their daily work time schedules in the UK. We consider three distinct dimensions of flexible working: flexibility of daily start and finish times (flexitime), flexibility of work times over the year (annualised hours), and generalised control of working hours. We find that in couples with flexitime there is greater spouse synchronization in daily working times by nearly one hour. The effect is driven by couples with dependent children. However, we find the effect in couples with children of any age (under 16), suggesting it does not stem from the childcare requirements of young children. Robustness checks indicate that flexitime is not endogenous, suggesting that an expansion of flexitime would increase couples' work time coordination. There is less evidence that broader control over working hours increases daily synchronous working time and no evidence that annualised hours increase synchronous time on a daily basis. The weaker relationships with daily synchronous time for these two flexibility measures are consistent with their broader scope (control over amount of hours as well as timing) and longer time span.