Governance for a Better Life: A Study of Work-life Balance from the Perspective of Social Policy
As work-life conflict has become a new social risk that influencing peoples welfare and happiness, how to help them to maintain a balance between work (the source of income) and life (including caring, house works and leisure) has turn into a welfare demand which need public concerns. While there are few empirical study, this paper based upon the questionnaire survey and interview to laborers in a city of Guangdong Province, conducted a multi-factor ordered logit model to analyze the effects of age, gender, level in the labor market, organizational arrangement and domestic labor division on work-life balance. The results show that there are significant gender differences in work-life balance, and the supportive policies of employers are helpful to help employees to coordinate their work life relationship. There are various approaches to respond to this new kind of welfare demand from the perspective of governance. The government should get involved into peoples work-life relationship, to promote a coordinate system of multiple subjects by institutional supply, policy incentives and external constraints, provide an institutional guarantee for a better life.
Better life Public governance Social policy Work-life balance
YAN Xue-yong ZHOU Mei-duo DONG Yu-fei LIU Mei HE Si-meng
School of Public Affairs and Law, South West Jiaotong University, P.R.Chengdu, China, 610031 School of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Electronic Science and Technolo
国际会议
加纳
英文
378-385
2017-11-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）