Working Papers

Same Constraints in Changing Times? A Machine-Learning Approach to Childbearing and Fertility Intentions in Poland during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kurowska, A., Grabowska, M., Świtała, M., Osiewalska, B. University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences WP 32/2026 (526) While studies highligh...

Job Stressors, Self-Reported Stress, and Childbearing Decisions: A Longitudinal Study of Working Women in Germany

Luo, C., Jarosz, E., Matysiak, A. Occupational stressors are linked to workers’ subjective stress and major life decisions, such as job chang...

When Work Moves Home: Fertility Responses to Working from Home in Europe

Osiewalska, B., Matysiak, A., Yniversity fo Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, WP 32(2026) This study examines the role of working from home (WF...

The Digital Shift: Working from Home and the Educational Gradients in Fertility Rates

Osiewalska, B., Neels, K., Matysiak, A., University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences WP 38(2026) The expansion of working from home (WFH) ha...

Childbearing in the Knowledge-Based Society: Job-Related Learning Demands and the Transition to Parenthood in Germany

Luo, C., Osiewalska, B., Matysiak, A. University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, , WP 29/2025 (492) This study investigates the relationsh...

Working-Time Flexibility and Union Dissolutions: Evidence for Couples in Germany

Kałamucka, A., Matysiak, A., Osiewalska, B. University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, WP 28/2025 (491) Objective: This study examines th...

Two Sides of a Coin: the Relationship Between Work Autonomy and Childbearing

Beata Osiewalska, Anna Matysiak, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, WP(2/2024)438 This paper investigates the under-researched rol...

Structural Labour Market Change and Gender Inequality in Earnings

Anna Matysiak, Wojciech Hardy, Lucas van der Velde, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, WP(12/2023)419 Research from the US argues ...

Structural Labour Market Change, Cognitive Work, and Fertility in Germany

Honorata Bogusz, Anna Matysiak, Michaela Kreyenfeld*, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, WP (8/2023)415. *Hertie School Technologi...

Industrial robots and fertility in European countries

Anna Matysiak, Honorata Bogusz, Daniela Bellani*, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, WP(26/2022)402. *Scuola Normale Superiore, Fl...