Comparison of Women’s Situation in the Labour Market in the Former GDR and Poland

Witkowska, Dorota

dc.contributor.author	Witkowska, Dorota	en
dc.date.accessioned	2016-07-20T08:20:23Z
dc.date.available	2016-07-20T08:20:23Z
dc.date.issued	2016-06-18	en
dc.identifier.issn	1508-2008	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/18839
dc.description.abstract	As a result of the investigation we found that the situation of women in both countries has been changed after the collapse of the communist system in Europe. However, women in former German Democratic Republic, following a significant decrease in their participation in the labour market in the early transition period, went on to become even more active than their counterparts in the Western lands. At the same time, in Poland the economic activity rate of women is lower than was observed before the transformation.	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Comparative Economic Research;19	en
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0	en
dc.subject	labour market	en
dc.subject	economy in transition	en
dc.subject	gender inequalities	en
dc.title	Comparison of Women’s Situation in the Labour Market in the Former GDR and Poland	en
dc.page.number	129-148	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Ph.D., Full Professor at the University of Lodz, Faculty of Management	en
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	prof.witkowska@gmail.com	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/cer-2016-0017	en

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