Open AccessWomen's employment, children and transition
An empirical analysis for Poland 1
Author(s) -
Bardasi Elena,
Monfardini Chiara
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
economics of transition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-0351
pISSN - 0967-0750
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0351.2009.00346.x
Subject(s) - economics , transition (genetics) , probit model , period (music) , probit , demographic economics , panel data , econometrics , labour economics , physics , biochemistry , chemistry , acoustics , gene
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.