Publication details
Význam faktorů trhu práce pro návrat žen na trh práce po rodičovské dovolené
| Title in English | Labour market factors and the women's work-life strategies after the parental leave |
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociální studia |
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| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | employer's behaviour; employment value; characteristics of working place; parental leave; re-entry in the labour market |
| Description | The aim of this paper is to explore how employment value, workplace characteristics and behaviour of employers intervene in the decision-making process of women in relation to their labour market re-entry after the parental leave. I suppose that women perceive the given labour market factors differently with respect to the level of education and that these factors partly influence the final shape of their work-life strategies after (and during) parental leave. Data which we analysed were collected in order to explore overall mechanism of this decision-making process, which enables me to find linkage of these factors to the following factors: gender-specific preferences, gender roles and division of work, financial constraints of the households, overall conditions in the labour market and the role of the institutional context (both formal and informal arrangements). For this purpose 21 interviews were made, including interviews with women who are currently in the situation of transition from parental leave to the labour market, living with a partner in the same household and who had a formal job before taking up the parental leave. In order to reach the partners for interview we used the snow-ball sampling technique. |
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