Determinants of work-life balance: Shortcomings in the contemporary measurement of WLB in large-scale surveys

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 449-469

  Pichler, Florian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

European Social Survey; Work life balance

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 67349171832     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-008-9297-5     Document Type: Article

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