Women's Employment, Children and Transition: An Empirical Analysis for Poland

This article empirically investigates how the transition to a market economy affected the relationship between motherhood and labour force outcomes in Poland. We estimate different probit models on two panel datasets covering a three-year period before the reform (1987-1989) and a three-year period...

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Main Authors: Bardasi, Elena, Monfardini, Chiara
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5010
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spelling okr-10986-50102021-04-23T14:02:20Z Women's Employment, Children and Transition: An Empirical Analysis for Poland Bardasi, Elena Monfardini, Chiara Fertility Family Planning Child Care INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Children Youth J130 Economics of Gender Non-labor Discrimination J160 Time Allocation and Labor Supply J220 This article empirically investigates how the transition to a market economy affected the relationship between motherhood and labour force outcomes in Poland. We estimate different probit models on two panel datasets covering a three-year period before the reform (1987-1989) and a three-year period afterwards (1994-1996). Contrary to a priori expectations, our findings indicate that during transition young children were much less of a deterrent to the employment probability of their mother than they were before transition. 2012-03-30T07:30:50Z 2012-03-30T07:30:50Z 2009 Journal Article Economics of Transition 09670750 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5010 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Poland
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topic Fertility
Family Planning
Child Care
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Children
Youth J130
Economics of Gender
Non-labor Discrimination J160
Time Allocation and Labor Supply J220
spellingShingle Fertility
Family Planning
Child Care
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Children
Youth J130
Economics of Gender
Non-labor Discrimination J160
Time Allocation and Labor Supply J220
Bardasi, Elena
Monfardini, Chiara
Women's Employment, Children and Transition: An Empirical Analysis for Poland
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description This article empirically investigates how the transition to a market economy affected the relationship between motherhood and labour force outcomes in Poland. We estimate different probit models on two panel datasets covering a three-year period before the reform (1987-1989) and a three-year period afterwards (1994-1996). Contrary to a priori expectations, our findings indicate that during transition young children were much less of a deterrent to the employment probability of their mother than they were before transition.
format Journal Article
author Bardasi, Elena
Monfardini, Chiara
author_facet Bardasi, Elena
Monfardini, Chiara
author_sort Bardasi, Elena
title Women's Employment, Children and Transition: An Empirical Analysis for Poland
title_short Women's Employment, Children and Transition: An Empirical Analysis for Poland
title_full Women's Employment, Children and Transition: An Empirical Analysis for Poland
title_fullStr Women's Employment, Children and Transition: An Empirical Analysis for Poland
title_full_unstemmed Women's Employment, Children and Transition: An Empirical Analysis for Poland
title_sort women's employment, children and transition: an empirical analysis for poland
publishDate 2012
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5010
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