Arbeitspapier

Women's employment, children and transition: an empirical analysis on Poland

The effect of transition from centrally planned to market economies on female employment is unclear a-priori. Many studies have pointed out that the emergence of labour markets created obstacles to but also new opportunities for women's employment. A frequently mentioned potential explanation of the lower female participation during the transition period is represented by the reduction of childcare facilities, which created a major constraint on the participation of women with dependent children. However, we must not forget the effect of forces of opposite sign, first of all the household necessity of having two earners during the turbulent transition period. The aim of this paper is to give an empirical assessment on how the transition to a market economy affected the relationship between motherhood and labour force outcomes in Poland. We estimate random effects probit models on two PACO panel datasets covering a four year period before the reform (1987-1990) and a three year period afterwards (1994-1996). Our findings indicate that during transition small children were much less of a deterrent to the employment probability of their mother than it was before transition.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Ezoneplus Working Paper ; No. 25

Classification
Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Factor and Product Markets; Industry Studies; Population
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Subject
female employment
fertility
transitional economies
Poland
panel data
Frauenerwerbstätigkeit
Übergangswirtschaft
Fruchtbarkeit
Kinderbetreuung
Panel
Polen

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bardasi, Elena
Monfardini, Chiara
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Free University Berlin, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2004

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Bardasi, Elena
  • Monfardini, Chiara
  • Free University Berlin, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence

Time of origin

  • 2004

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