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Yuppie Kvetch? Work-life Conflict and Social Class in Western Europe. WP239. May 2008

McGinnity, Frances and Calvert, Emma (2008) Yuppie Kvetch? Work-life Conflict and Social Class in Western Europe. WP239. May 2008. [Working Paper]

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    Abstract

    Recent debates on time-use suggest that there is an inverse relationship between time poverty and income poverty (Aguiar and Hurst, 2007), with Hammermesh and Lee (2007) suggesting much time poverty is ‘yuppie kvetch’ or ‘complaining’. Gershuny (2005) argues that busyness is the ‘badge of honour’: being busy is now a positive, privileged position and it is high status people who work long hours and feel busy.

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    Item Type: Working Paper
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > employment/labour market
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > economic and financial affairs > poverty
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    Series: Series > Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin > ESRI Working Papers
    Depositing User: Alyssa McDonald
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 29 Dec 2019 16:06
    Number of Pages: 39
    Last Modified: 29 Dec 2019 16:06
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/87742

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