Documents Bächmann, Ann-Christin 3 results

"Einige Gewerkschaften in Deutschland haben zuletzt ein flexibles Arbeitsarrangement durchgesetzt, bei dem sich die Beschäftigten jährlich neu zwischen mehr Zeit oder mehr Geld entscheiden können. Diese Wahloption bietet damit das Potenzial, die persönliche Arbeitszeit flexibler an unterschiedliche Lebensphasen anzupassen. Der Beitrag analysiert anhand eines verknüpften Betriebs- und Beschäftigtendatensatzes, inwiefern sich Männer und Frauen mit und ohne Kinder unter 14 Jahren im Haushalt bei der Wahl von Zeit sowie bei den dahinterliegenden Motiven ihrer Wahl unterscheiden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen zum einen, dass Frauen häufiger Zeit wählen als Männer. Zum anderen geben Mütter und Väter die Zeit für Hobbies, Freunde und sich selbst deutlich häufiger als wichtigsten Grund für die Zeitwahl an als Frauen und Männer ohne Kinder unter 14 Jahren im Haushalt. Die Ergebnisse sprechen somit dafür, dass sich auch im Kontext der Wahloption geschlechts- und elternschaftsspezifische Unterschiede finden lassen."

"his study examines the short-term consequences for care-arrangements and resulting changes in well-being among parents, who were affected by the closure of schools and institutional child-care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. By applying multinomial logistic regression models to novel panel data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS-Corona_CAWI_C2), the study finds that mothers play a key role in the ad-hoc care-arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic confirming the traditional division of family work in German couples. Moreover, the results illustrate the importance of working conditions, especially the possibility of remote work, in the bargaining processes of parents. However, contrary to our assumptions, parents' well-being was not influenced by the chosen care-arrangement during the first months of the crisis."

"The COVID-19 pandemic has had very different impacts on the employment and family work conditions of men and women. Thus, it might have jeopardised the slow and hard-won reduction of gender inequalities in the division of labour achieved in recent decades. Using data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) and its supplementary COVID-19 web survey for Germany, we investigate the relationship between working conditions and gender differences in subjective well-being during the first months of the pandemic. Therefore, we systematically consider the household context by distinguishing between adults with and without young children. The results from multivariate regression models accounting for pre-corona satisfaction reveal a decline in all respondents' life satisfaction, particularly among women and mothers with young children. However, the greater reduction in women's well-being cannot be linked to systematic differences in working conditions throughout the pandemic. Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder counterfactual decompositions confirm this conclusion. However, further robustness checks suggest that women's societal concerns and greater loneliness partly explain the remaining gender differences during the first months of the crisis. From a general perspective, our results suggest important gender differences in social life and psychological distress in spring 2020, which are likely to become more pronounced as the crisis unfolds."