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The Research Feed is intended to make members of the work-family community aware of recent scholarship in academic publications (such as academic journals and books) or items of interest to the academic research community. The Research Feed canvases research journals that commonly publish work-family studies. The feed is presented on the WFRN website and is directed to members’ email accounts.
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Swiss Men Are (Not) Transitioning to Part-Time Work: The Role of Ideal Worker and Male Breadwinner Norms in Occupational Contexts
While Swiss men are increasingly transitioning to part-time employment, many remain working full-time despite wanting to shift to part-time work. This study investigates whether two occupation-specific cultural norms – the ideal worker and male breadwinner – influence Swiss men’s preferences for and voluntary transitions to part-time work. We created a unique dataset by linking individual [Read More…]
August 4, 2026
Visualizing the Prevalence of Couples’ Work-Family Arrangements across Countries
Cross-national differences in individual patterns of paid and unpaid work are well documented, yet how couples jointly allocate time across both remains comparatively understudied. Where couple-level work-family arrangements have been studied, research has relied on qualitative or single-country designs, leaving open whether a singular typology generalizes cross-nationally and how its prevalence varies across countries. Using [Read More…]
July 17, 2026
Do Women Ask for Less? Evidence From Reservation Wages in Italy
Gender gaps in labor market outcomes have traditionally been attributed to differences in individual productivity or to discrimination. More recently, however, several studies have documented the role of gender differences in psychological attitudes. To shed light on this issue, rather than using data on realized wages, we rely on data on reservation wages—the lowest wage [Read More…]
July 17, 2026
The Winner Doesn’t Need to Take It All: Unravelling the Gendered Value of Work Time
How people understand, negotiate and use time at work shapes their daily experiences. Yet, when work time is divided, allocated and valued in workplaces, women often lose out. Despite pervasive empirical evidence of gender gaps, research has largely overlooked the deeper role of time in shaping inequality. Our integrative review introduces a novel temporal lens [Read More…]
July 17, 2026
Industrial Relations and Working From Home in Germany During the COVID-19 Pandemic
We investigate the role of industrial relations for working from home during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic in Germany. Using data from the German Socio‐Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 2020 to 2023 and a special COVID sample (SOEP‐CoV) for 2020 and 2021, we examine how collective bargaining and plant‐level co‐determination are associated with the [Read More…]
July 17, 2026
Partnerships for Social Cohesion and Social Impact: How Corporate-Community Co-Development Constitutes an Impactful HR Initiative
Organizational scholars have begun to recognize the importance of social cohesion, but we know little about how it can lead to broader social impact, and even less about the role of human resource management (HRM) in these processes. To investigate this link, we examined corporate community co‐development as a particularly impactful HRM initiative. The program [Read More…]
July 8, 2026
Signaling Effects of Women’s Quotas: An Analysis of Workforce Perceptions and Reactions
Women’s quotas are widely used to promote gender equality in organizations, yet little is known about how the general workforce perceives and reacts to them. Drawing on signaling theory, we examine employees’ awareness of women’s quotas and how it influences their reactions. Using data from the Linked Personnel Panel, a representative German dataset linking employer [Read More…]
July 8, 2026
Equal Pay, Better Performance: The Organization-Level Impact of Gender Pay Equality and Work–Life Balance
The popular press and consulting reports claim that organizations with gender equity are rewarded with a more productive workforce. Nevertheless, despite extensive research on the antecedents of the gender pay gap, we know little about how the organization‐level gender pay gap relates to labor productivity, particularly when considered alongside other interrelated human resource systems such [Read More…]
July 8, 2026
Legacies of Fathers’ Solo Leave: Dual-Career Couples and Dynamic Linked Care(ers)
This article theorises how dual-career couples navigate work and care following fathers’ early solo caregiving, challenging individualised conceptions of careers. Drawing on longitudinal qualitative data from 10 UK dual-career couples over 5 years, we examine how fathers’ solo caregiving during periods of parental leave shapes subsequent practices of work and care. We show that this [Read More…]
July 8, 2026
A Theory of Aberrant Work-Life Navigation
Everyone experiences major life transitions (e.g. relocation, job loss, birth of a child), and increasingly so as economic, technological, and social environments become more turbulent. Yet in accounting for how work-life decision-making associated with these transitions occurs, we argue that extant theory overfocuses on individual agency and rational thinking. In this article, we bridge an [Read More…]
July 8, 2026
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