Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324539 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Central European Economic Journal (CEEJ) [ISSN:] 2543-6821 [Volume:] 8 [Issue:] 55 [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 63-78
Publisher: 
Sciendo, Warsaw
Abstract: 
This article provides insights into employment decisions of mothers and mothers-to-be in a post-socialist Poland around the entry to the EU. Previous studies for this country continuously pointed to a strong determination among mothers to be employed during the economic transformation, despite increasing obstacles to combining paid work with childrearing over the 1990s. We analyse in-depth interviews to explore women's motives to work for pay. We investigate how these motives are related to women's childbearing experiences and intentions. Our analyses show that motherhood was central in women's lives at this point in Polish history, but females sought to combine it with employment. We also find that women's perceptions about their ability to balance work and motherhood were strongly related to the meanings that they attached to paid work.
Subjects: 
fertility
women's labour force participation
motives for work
qualitative interviews
transition economies
Central and Eastern Europe
JEL: 
J22
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Document Type: 
Article

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