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Women’s determination to combine childbearing and paid employment: How can a qualitative approach help us understand quantitative evidence?
(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 ... -
Does parenthood increase happiness? Evidence for Poland
(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 ... -
Different women’s employment and fertility behaviours in similar institutional settings: Evidence from Italy and Poland
(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
(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 ... -
Country-Specific Conditions for Work and Family Reconciliation: An Attempt at Quantification
(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 ... -
Women’s self-employment in Poland: a strategy for combining work and childcare?
(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. ...