Women with small children in Russia: types of employment and labor market behavior strategies

1. State University – Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia Women with small children in Russia: types of employment and labor market behavior strategies Anna Sukhova E-mail: anna_sukhova@inbox.ru The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 23nd Annual Meeting, Madrid, Spain June 23-25, 2011

2. Structure of presentation • Background • Aim and objectives • Object and subject • Databases • Preliminary results * The research is conducted under the project “Women after childbearing in the Russian labor market” financed by the grant of HSE Science Foundation 2011-2012. The project head – T. Karabchuk.

3. Background maternity child Woman employment • Paid and unpaid parental leave • Discrimination by employers • Situation with childcare services Part time or full time ? Self-employment or Employee Permanent, fixed-term, or temporary contract Regularity of work

4. The aim and objectives The aim: To find and describe types of employment for women with small children and to define their determinants. Objectives: • To find typesof employment for women with children aged 0-1,5 years; 1,5-3 years; 4-6 years; 7-13 years and for women without children. • To make typology of women’ strategies on labor market according to the types of employment • To reveal factors that influence on type of strategy on the labor market that a women chose after child birth

5. Subject and object • Object –women with children under 14 in 2000-2009 years. • The simple excludes pensioners, invalids, because their demographic and labor behavior could significantly vary from other women. • Extra focus on women with children under 7. • Subject–types of employment among women with small children.

6. Databases 1) Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) Years: 1994-2010 Sample ~ 12 000 households each year Panel data Representative for Russia The survey is held in Russia by HSE 2) Parents and children, men and women in family and society (RiDMiZh or Rus GGS) Years: 2004, 2007 Sample ~ 11 000 households each wave Representative for Russia Respondents from 18 until 84 years The survey is held in Russia by the Independent Institute for Social Policy (IISP)

7. Methodology

8. Preliminary resultsWomen employment by number of children Source: RusGGS-2007

9. Women employment by age of children

10. Full-time or part-time work Source: RusGGS-2007

11. Type of employment Source: RusGGS-2007

12. Other characteristics of work

13. Type of work contract

14. Next steps • Using RLMS database for panel analysis that allows to observe women’ employment before and after the childbirth • Building the typology of strategies of women with small children in the labor market • Defining the determinants of every labor market behavior strategy • Developing of recommendations for Russian social and labor market policy by a part of women with small children

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