Non-Standard Work Schedules and Parents Reconciliation of Work and Family Life: The Protective Role of Intrahousehold Support Opportunities

Anna Matysiak, University of Warsaw
Anna Kurowska, University of Warsaw
Alina Pavelea , University of Warsaw

This study investigates whether parents who have non-standard work schedules (i.e. work outside the Monday to Friday, nine-to-five schedule) experience higher work-family and family-work conflict compared to parents with standard working arrangements. We also study whether the support parents may receive from other co-residing family members (e.g. older children, grandparents) is likely to moderate these effects. Our focus is on dual earner couples (in which case we look at work schedules of both partners), as well as single parents, who may experience especially strong work-family tensions if they work non-standard hours. We make use of two and five of the European Social Survey (ESS). These waves offer information on experiences of conflict between family and work responsibilities of the main respondent, while also including data on household composition and the employment of respondents and their partners. We model the data with the ordinary least squares regressions.

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 Presented in Session P1. Fertility, Family, Life Course