Anna Matysiak

Childbearing and paid work

Anna Matysiak — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 20:00:33 +0000

Interdependencies between childbearing and women’s paid work in an international perspective constitute the main area of my expertise. I examined the role of women’s involvement in paid work on their childbearing behaviours and the impact of parenthood on women’s labour market outcomes. I have also studied the role of the social context (family and employment policies, gender role attitudes or economic conditions) in affecting women’s labour market outcomes in connection with motherhood. One of my noteworthy contributions in this research area is the quantitative social indicator which assesses country-specific conditions for work and family reconciliation in Europe quantitatively. This publication, co-authored by D. Weziak-Bialowolska, was distinguished by the Springer Nature for providing groundbreaking scientific findings with a potential to “change the world” and “help the humanity”. Currently I am interested in studying how the dynamic labour market transformation driven by technological change affect women’s labour market outcomes.

Major publications:

Kasperska, A., Matysiak, A., Cukrowska-Torzewska, E., 2023, Managerial Preferences towards Employees Working from Home: Post-Pandemic Experimental Evidence. WNE Working Paper No 16.
Matysiak, A., Hardy, W., van der Velde, L., 2023, Structural Labour Market Change and Gender Inequality in Earnings. WNE Working Paper No 12.
Bogusz, H., Matysiak, A., Kreyenfeld, M., 2023, Structural Labour Market Change, Cognitive Work, and Fertility in Germany. WNE Working Paper No 8.
Cukrowska-Torzewska, E., Matysiak, A., Kasperska, A., Gender and family perspectives on the uptake of ICT-induced home-based work. WNE Working Paper No 1
Matysiak, A., Cukrowska-Torzewska, E., 2021, Gender and labour market outcomes. In: Schneider, N.F., Kreyenfeld, M. (ed.) Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Family. Edward Elgar Publishing, ISBN 978 1 78897 553 7, p. 329-341.
Matysiak, A., Mynarska, M., 2021, Motives for Combining Motherhood with Employment: Evidence for Medium and Highly Educated Polish Women Around the EU Accession. Central Economic European Journal 8(55): 63-78.
Matysiak, A., Mynarska, M., 2020, Self-Employment as a Work-and-Family Reconciliation Strategy? Evidence from Poland. Advances in Life Course Research 45, Article 100329.
Cukrowska-Torzewska, E., Matysiak, A., 2020, The Motherhood Wage Penalty : A Meta-Analysis. Social Science Research (Online first)
Nitsche, N., Matysiak, A., Van Bavel, J., Vignoli, D., 2018, Partners’ Educational Pairings and Fertility Across Europe, Demography, 55(4): 1195–1232.
Billingsley, S., Matysiak, A., 2018, Social mobility and family expansion in Poland and Russia during socialism and capitalism. Advances in Life Course Research 36: 80-91.
Baranowska-Rataj, A., Matysiak, A., 2016, The Causal Effects of the Number of Children on Female Employment – Do European Institutional and Gender Conditions Matter? Journal of Labour Research 37:343–367.
Matysiak, A., Węziak-Białowolska, D., 2016, Country-specific conditions of work and family reconciliation. An Attempt at Quantification. European Journal of Population 32:475–510.
Matysiak, A., Szalma, I., 2014, Effects of Parental Leave Policies on Second Birth Risks and Women’s Employment Entry. Population. The English Edition 69(4): 599-636.
Matysiak, A., Vignoli, D., 2013, Diverse effects of women’s employment on fertility: insights from Italy and Poland. European Journal of Population 29(3): 273-302.
Matysiak A. 2011, Interdependencies between fertility and women’s labour supply. Springer, Dordrecht, ISBN 978-94-007-1284-3
Matysiak, A., Vignoli, D., 2010, Employment around first birth in two adverse institutional settings: Evidence from Italy and Poland. Journal of Family Research 22(3): 331-349.
Matysiak, A., 2009, Employment first, then childbearing: women’s strategy in post-socialist Poland. Population Studies 63(3): 253-276.
Matysiak, A., Vignoli, D., 2009, Methods for reconciling the micro and the macro in family demography research: the systematization. Studia Demograficzne 1(155): 98-109
Matysiak A., Steinmetz S., 2008, Finding Their Way? Female Employment Patterns in West Germany, East Germany, and Poland, European Sociological Review 24(3): 331-345
Matysiak A., Vignoli D., 2008. Fertility and women’s employment: a meta-analysis, European Journal of Population 24:363–384

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Labour market change and family dynamics

Anna Matysiak — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 19:00:15 +0000

I am also interested in examining the effects of labour market transformations on family dynamics. I have investigated the role of economic uncertainty on fertility in general as well as during the most recent economic recession. Currently, I running the ERC Consolidator Grant LABFER in which I am investigating how the ongoing labour market transformations, driven by globalisation and technological change, affect family dynamics. In particular, we examine the role of such labour market changes as the spread of labour replacing technologies or growing opportunities of working from home. In another EU funded project, Risks, Resources and Inequalities (rEUsilience), we investigate which strategies couples adopt in order to adjust to the deal with the labour market risks resulting from the adoption of new technologies, globalisation or demographic change.

Publications:

Osiewalska, B., Matysiak, A., Kurowska, A., 2023, Home-based work and childbearing. Population Studies, forthcoming
Kurowska, A., Matysiak, A., Osiewalska, B., 2023, Working from home during Covid-19 pandemic and changes to fertility intentions among parents, European Journal of Population, forthcoming
Bogusz, H., Matysiak, A., Kreyenfeld, M., 2023, Structural Labour Market Change, Cognitive Work, and Fertility in Germany. WNE Working Paper No 8.
Matysiak, A., Bellani, D., Bogusz, H., 2023, Industrial robots and regional fertility in European countries. European Journal of Population 39(1)
Alderotti, G., Vignoli, D., Baccini, M., Matysiak, A., 2021, Employment Instability and Fertility in Europe: A Meta-Analysis, Demography 58(3): 871-900.
Matysiak, A., Sobotka, T., Vignoli, D., 2021, The Great Recession and Fertility in Europe: A Sub-national Analysis. European Journal of Population 37: 29–64.

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Union formation and dissolution

Anna Matysiak — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:00:03 +0000

Besides fertility, I have also worked on union dynamics. I investigated the process of diffusion of new family arrangements, such as cohabitation and childbearing within cohabitation. I have also studied the links between women’s socio-economic status and union disruption. In particular, I demonstrated a change in the educational gradient in union disruption in Nordic and Southern European countries (with M. Styrc and D. Vignoli) and provided evidence that the impact of women’s employment on divorce depends on the country context and in particular on the generosity of the state support toward families and single mothers.

Major publications:

Vignoli, D., Matysiak, A., Styrc, M., Tocchioni, V., 2018, The Positive Impact of Women’s Employment on Divorce: Context, Selection, or Anticipation? Demographic Research 38, Article 37, 1059–1110.
Matysiak, A., Styrc, M., Vignoli, D., 2014, The educational gradient in marital disruption: A meta-analysis of European research. Population Studies 68(2): 197-215.
Mynarska, M., Baranowska-Rataj, A., Matysiak, A., 2014, Free to stay, free to leave: Insights from Poland into the meaning of cohabitation. Demographic Research 31, Article 36, 1107-1136.
Mynarska, M., Matysiak, A., 2011, Diffusion of Cohabitation in Poland. Studia Demograficzne 1-2 (157-158): 11-26.
Hoem, J.M., Gabrielli, G., Jasilioniene, A., Kostova, D., Matysiak, A., 2010, Levels of recent union formation. Six European countries compared. Demographic Research 22, Article 9: 199-210.
Matysiak, A., 2009, Is Poland really “immune” to the spread of cohabitation? Demographic Research 21, Article 8: 215-234.

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Family life and subjective well-being

Anna Matysiak — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:00:18 +0000

Part of my research is also devoted to studies on the relationship between childbearing and parental subjective well-being. One of my contributions to this strand of research is the finding that a non-marital birth does not lower mothers’ subjective well-being. This finding, obtained together with A. Baranowska-Rataj and M. Mynarska, challenges the previous quantitative research on this topic. Single mothers indeed have lower subjective well-being than married mothers, but this difference is caused by other life circumstances (e.g. having no partner, negative childhood experiences).

Furthermore, together with L. Mencarini and D. Vignoli, we provided an explanation for the negative effect of parenthood on maternal subjective well-being, which is often found in the literature. Namely, we demonstrated that both mothers and fathers experience a decline in subjective well-being after birth, but only if they experience strong tensions between paid work and family. Reaching good work-family balance is thus an important pre-condition for parental psychological well-being.

Publications:

Jarosz, E., Matysiak, A., Osiewalska, B., 2023, Maternal free time – a missing element in fertility studies. Population and Development Review, forthcoming
Matysiak, A., Mencarini, L., Vignoli, D., 2016, Work–Family Conflict Moderates the Relationship Between Childbearing and Subjective Well-Being. European Journal of Population 32:355–379.
Baranowska-Rataj, A., Matysiak, A., Mynarska, M., 2014, Does Lone Motherhood Decrease Women’s Happiness? Evidence from Qualitative and Quantitative Research. Journal of Happiness Studies 15(6): 1456-1477.
Baranowska A., Matysiak, A., 2011, Does Parenthood increase Happiness? Evidence from Poland. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 9, 307-325.

Media:

Spannungsfeld Arbeits- und Familienpflichten „beziehungsweise“, April 2019

Matysiak, A., Gender-sensitive family policies as a way to address low fertility in Eastern Europe. Policy brief for the United Nations Population Fund

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Family dynamics and policies

Anna Matysiak — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:00:37 +0000

I have also published more generally on the causes and consequences of family change in Europe and provided my expertise on family policies to governments in Eastern European countries (Moldova and Armenia) through my collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund. Earlier I also provided my expertise to the governmental agencies in Poland (Chancellary of the Republic of Poland 2011-2013, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy).

Major publications:

Sobotka, T., Matysiak, A., Brzozowska, Z., 2019, Policy responses to low fertility: How effective are they? Report for the United Nations Population Fund, New York, forthcoming.
Matysiak, A., 2014, ed. Nowe wzorce formowania i rozwoju rodziny w Polsce. Przyczyny oraz wpływ na zadowolenie z życia (New patterns of family formation in Poland. Its causes and consequences for subjective well-being). Scholar Publishing, ISBN: 978-83-7383-654-9
Baranowska-Rataj, A., Matysiak, A., 2012, Czy znamy lekarstwo na niską dzietność? Wyniki międzynarodowych badań ewaluacyjnych na temat polityki rodzinnej. (Do we know how to increase fertility? A review of international research on family policy evaluation) Polityka Społeczna 7: 9-14.
Matysiak, A., 2011, Fertility developments in Central and Eastern Europe: the role of work-family tensions. Demográfia – The English Edition 54(5): 7-30.
Kotowska I.E., Jóźwiak J., Matysiak A., Baranowska A., 2008, Poland: Fertility decline – a response to profound societal change and transformations in the labour market? Demographic Research 19, Article 22, 795-854

Research briefs:

Matysiak, A., 2018, Gender-sensitive family policies as a way to address low fertility in Eastern Europe. Policy brief for the United Nations Population Fund
Kotowska, I.E. Matysiak, A., Mynarska, M. (2016). The life of Poles: From leaving the parental home to retirement. Insights from the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS-PL), Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw
Matysiak,. A., Baranowska-Rataj, A., Mynarska, M., Rybińska, A., Styrc, M. (2013). Między zmianą światopoglądową a ograniczeniami dnia codziennego: Jakie przyczyny przemian rodziny w Polsce? Jakie rekomendacje dla polityki? (Between ideational change and the limitations of the daily life: What has been causing the family change in Poland? Policy recommendations), Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw

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Fathers’ involvement

Anna Matysiak — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:00:09 +0000

In the last years, I have also developed interest in fathers’ involvement in the family and its consequences for men’s labour market outcomes and fertility. Numerous papers published over the last decade found an increase in men’s involvement in the family and suggested that it should lead to higher fertility, by lowering women’s opportunity costs of childrearing.

Higher fathers’ involvement may, however, also imply higher opportunity costs for men and consequently lower men’s intentions to have children. In a study with A. Baranowska-Rataj we showed that fatherhood premium, i.e. an increase in earnings men received after becoming fathers, is no longer paid to men in countries where the division of childcare and housework is more equal. In another study, with A. Rybińska, we also demonstrated that men’s involvement in childcare indeed lowers men’s willingness to have children, which may have its repercussions on fertility.

Major publications:

Baranowska-Rataj, A., Matysiak, A., 2022, Family Size and Men’s Labor Market Outcomes: Do Social Beliefs About Men’s Roles in the Family Matter? Feminist Economics 28(2): 93-118

Ppt presentations:

Matysiak, A. Rybińska, A., Men’s involvement in the family and fertility: what about men’s opportunity costs? Presentation at the PHRG Colloquium, University of StAndrews, 14.05.2019

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