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Women’s determination to combine childbearing and paid employment: How can a qualitative approach help us understand quantitative evidence?
Matysiak, Anna; Mynarska, Monika (2010)This paper aims to provide deeper insight into women’s fertility and employment decisions through the exploration of women’s values and beliefs. For our research, we selected Poland, where quantitative studies continuously ... -
Regulacje prawne tworzenia, rozwoju i rozpadu rodzin w Polsce
Matysiak, Anna; Wrona, Grzegorz (2010)Demografowie coraz częściej wskazują na rolę regulacji prawnych dla kształtowania decyzji jednostek w obszarze formowania, rozwoju i rozpadu rodzin. Regulacje te określają koszty i korzyści podejmowania określonych działań. ... -
Diffusion of cohabitation in Poland
Matysiak, Anna; Mynarska, Monika (2010)This paper attempts to establish the stage Poland has reached in the process of cohabitation diffusion, referring to the theoretical model of the process developed in demographic literature. Official statistics suggest ... -
Does parenthood increase happiness? Evidence for Poland
Baranowska, Anna; Matysiak, Anna (2011)In the recent decade demographers turned their attention to investigating the effects of children on self-rated happiness or life satisfaction. The underlying idea of this strand of research is to find out whether it ... -
The changing educational gradient in marital disruption: A meta-analysis of European longitudinal research
Matysiak, Anna; Styrc, Marta; Vignoli, Daniele (2011)A large number of empirical studies have investigated the role of education in the changes in union dissolution in Europe, but these studies have so far produced inconsistent results. This paper seeks to assess the ... -
Posiadanie własnego mieszkania a rodzicielstwo w Polsce
Matysiak, Anna (2011)Posiadanie własnego mieszkania to według Hobcraft i Kiernan (1995) jeden z warunków realizacji decyzji o zostaniu rodzicem w krajach rozwiniętych. Znaczenie tego czynnika dla decyzji o rodzicielstwie nie było jak dotychczas ... -
Different women’s employment and fertility behaviours in similar institutional settings: Evidence from Italy and Poland
Matysiak, Anna; Vignoli, Daniele (2011)In this paper we compare Italy and Poland, two countries where the country-specific obstacles to work and family reconciliation are similarly strong, but which differ in terms of the history of women’s labour force ... -
Fertility developments in Central and Eastern Europe: the role of work-family tensions
Matysiak, Anna (2012)This paper provides an overview of developments in fertility, family policy models, and intensity of work-family tensions in the CEE region in the 1990s and 2000s. It hypothesises that the intensification of work-family ... -
Women’s employment and marital stability: the role of the context
Styrc, Marta; Matysiak, Anna (2012)A discussion of the effects of partners’ labour force participation on marital stability has been part of the demographic debate for several decades. While theorists generally agree that men’s employment has a stabilizing ... -
Czy znamy lekarstwo na niską dzietność? Wyniki międzynarodowych badań ewaluacyjnych na temat polityki rodzinnej
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna; Matysiak, Anna (2012)Niniejszy artykuł prezentuje ideę badań ewaluacyjnych oraz dokonuje przeglądu badań mierzących wpływ przyczynowo-skutkowy reform polityki rodzinnej na dzietność. W świetle doświadczeń międzynarodowych pozytywny wpływ na ... -
Does Lone Motherhood Decrease Women’s Subjective Well-Being? Evidence from Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna; Matysiak, Anna; Mynarska, Monika (2012)This paper contributes to the discussion on the effects of single motherhood on happiness. We use a mixed-method approach. First, based on in-depth interviews with mothers who gave birth while single, we explore mechanisms ... -
Country-Specific Conditions for Work and Family Reconciliation: An Attempt at Quantification
Matysiak, Anna; Węziak-Białowolska, Dorota (2013)The country-specific conditions for work and family reconciliation have been theoretically and empirically acknowledged to constitute important determinants of fertility and women’s employment. So far, however, there have ... -
Diverse paths into childlessness over the life cours
Mynarska, Monika; Matysiak, Anna; Rybińska, Anna; Tocchioni, Valentina; Vignoli, Daniele (2013)Childlessness is rarely an outcome of a single decision or can be attributed to one particular reason. Remaining childless should rather be seen as a process influenced by continuously changing context and by many choices ... -
Women’s self-employment in Poland: a strategy for combining work and childcare?
Matysiak, Anna; Mynarska, Monika (2013)The paper investigates whether self-employment, which generally offers greater flexibility with respect to the hours and place of work, is chosen by women in order to achieve a better balance between paid work and family. ... -
The causal effects of the number of children on female employment - do European institutional and gender conditions matter?
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna; Matysiak, Anna (2014)This paper contributes to the discussion on the effects of the number of children on female employment in Europe. Previous research has usually either (1) compared these effects across countries assuming exogeneity of ... -
Does the European country-specific context alter the fatherhood premium?
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna; Matysiak, Anna (2014)This paper contributes to the discussion on the effects of childbearing on fathers’ labour market opportunities in Europe. We use instrumental variable models and data from EU-SILC to examine the cross-country variation ...