Table 4.
The impact of flexible work on couples’ synchronous working time, by age of children, controlling for industry, sector and occupation
| Youngest child under 5 years | Youngest child over 5 years | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | |
| Has flexitime (m or f) | 0.973** | 0.467 | 0.781* | 0.722* |
| (0.478) | (0.516) | (0.401) | (0.388) | |
| Annualized hours (m or f) | –2.070** | –1.740** | –0.186 | –0.084 |
| (0.722) | (0.628) | (0.528) | (0.515) | |
| Control over work hours (m or f) | –0.533 | –0.671 | –0.363 | –0.210 |
| (0.579) | (0.576) | (0.506) | (0.498) | |
| Industry and sector controls | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Occupation controls | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| N (couples) | 256 | 495 | ||
OLS estimates at couple level, weighted for survey design and non-response. Standard errors in parentheses. Models include (for each spouse) daily work duration, age and age squared, highest educational qualification, log hourly wage, and region. Industry/sector controls consist of 15 dummy variables based on SIC92 divisions and a dummy variable for public vs private sector. Occupation controls are 8 occupation dummy variables based on SOC 1990 major groups. Industry/sector and occupation enters separately for each spouse. The number of couples with flexitime is 48 (in columns 1 and 2) and 78 (columns 3 and 4)
* Significant at 10% level
** Significant at 5% level