The research project focuses on a description and analysis of relations between professional career and family life and their development in the Czech Republic after 1989. It combines a diachronic approach based on comparison of the employment patterns of cohorts having children after 1989 with older cohorts, and an analysis of factors contributing to the differentiation of strategies of work/family balance in 1990s. Specifically, it aims to analyse changes in timing of the transition to parenthood and in men’s and women’s employments patterns over the family course. The emphasis is given to analysis of their differentiation according gender, qualification, values and family forms. Project is based on a secondary analysis of existing data files. The findings will help explain changes in family behaviour in 1990 s and the impacts of economic and social changes on work and family arrangements.
Project publications (total 22, displaying 11 - 20)
This chapter describes theoretical backgrounds of this book. It shows that life course perspective provides an appropriate theoretical framework for a study of relations between the family and paid work arrangements. This chapter summarizes main changes in family behaviour in the Czech Republic during recent decades and their explanations. Based on this literature review, the chapter formulates the main research questions and topics, on which we will focus in the following chapters.
This book examines the changes in the early stages in work and family trajectories in recent decades in the Czech Republic. The individual chapters focus on changes to job mobility among, the increased diversity of family trajectories, the motives for parenthood in consensual unions, and the financial support for young families.
Using SEPM 2006 data this paper explores factors influencing a probability that unmarried mothers will marry after childbirth. The findings show that for the third of them unmarried parenthood is rather a new phase of family life-course leading to marriage than long term family arrangement. The higher probability to experience transition to marriage have unmarried mothers living in unmarried cohabitation, with higher education and who postponed marriage due a pregnancy.
The paper explores the timing of the return from parental leave to the labour market according the family situation of mothers and the reasons of their decision to return to an employment or stay at home. The paper is based on analyses data from social survey Social and economic conditions of motherhood from 2006 and on the analysis of model families which explores impacts of social system on economic activity of mothers with young children.
The paper explores the timing of the return from parental leave to the labour market according the family situation of mothers and the reasons of their decision to return to an employment or stay at home. The paper is based on analyses data from social survey Social and economic conditions of motherhood from 2006 and on the analysis of model families which explores impacts of social system on economic activity of mothers with young children.
This chapter focuses on attitudes towards marriage and unmarried cohabitation of Czechs and their actual family behavior. Firstly, it answers the question if unmarried cohabitations are becoming more popular and who prefer it. Can we explain an increase of non-marital fertility by the spread of unmarried cohabitations? Secondly, does a character of unmarried cohabitation differ from a marriage and are there any differences between marital and non-marital families with children?
Stať vychází z konceptu věkových norem a srovnává představy o ideálním věku rodičovství v České republice a v dalších evropských zemích. Dále se zaměřuje na diferenciaci představ o ideálním časování rodičovství v České republice podle vzdělání a kohortní příslušnosti. Zjištění ukazují, že ideální věk, kdy se stát matkou, je v České republice kladen do nižšího věku než v zemích západní Evropy.
The book under review focuses on the situation after partnership dissolution in terms of 1. change in disposable income, 2. female labour market participation, 3. residential mobility, and 4. living conditions. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic consequences of divorce and its gender differences across European countries. Methodologically, it combines case studies with comparative micro-macro analyses using individual and institutional context data.
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