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What are the gender differences in response to externally and internally administered testing environments⁉
Watch our latest with Almudena Sevilla from London School of Economics👇

Gender Differences in Performance: The Role of External Testing Environments Speaker: Almudena Sevilla, London School of EconomicsWe exploit a randomized control trial intervention on a large student population to study gender differe...

Who's joining us tomorrow for a brand new , this time with Almudena Sevilla⁉
We will exploit a randomized control trial intervention on a large student population to study gender differences in response to externally and internally administered testing environments.
✅See you at 1PM CET‼
Enrol here👉https://labfam.uw.edu.pl/seminars/gender-differences-in-performance-the-role-of-external-testing-environments-2/

Less than week to go‼️ Don't miss our very first in 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣
ENROL HERE ➡️https://labfam.uw.edu.pl/seminars/gender-differences-in-performance-the-role-of-external-testing-environments-2/

Yes, it's this time of a year ✅ 2023 time‼️ In 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ 👉at
✅we carried on research in our and projects
✔️we published 5️⃣ academic articles in renowned journals, as wel as 1️⃣ huge dataset and 6️⃣ working papers
*️⃣ we finalized 7 FGIs with struggling Polish and migrant families and contributed to report
💡we presented our work during 2️⃣2️⃣ conferences in Europe, both Americas, Australia, Asia and Africa‼️
📎we were awarded 2️⃣ more research grants which will allow us to, among others, conduct an experiment and explore webscraping
▶️we organized 8️⃣ online meetings with academicss from all over ther world presenting their latest research as a part of
➡️we hosted 2 open face-to-face seminars
🌀we co-organized a huge and very satisfying event - 21st ESPAnet Annual
Conference ▶️Challenges for the welfare state in turbulent times
✖️we marked our media presence ... countless times 😀
2024 - here we come‼️

What kind of research is carried out at here's a little sneak peek of one of handful of studies✖️this time within projekt 🇪🇺 ✅Adjustments in women’s labour force participation in response to the deterioration of the labour market situation of the male partner➡️We investigate whether
female partners increase their labour force participation after the labour market situation of their male partner
deteriorates (the work contract becomes more unstable, the number of working hours declines, they lose a
We also study how women’s reactions depend on the presence of young children at home (and thus how they deal with work-care trade-offs), the availability of external childcare and social benefits. For this purpose, we use the EU-SILC longitudinal microdata (2004-2019) linked to policy indicators at the regional or country
level.
The tudy shows that men's unemployment indeed increases the labour supply of their female partners-however, the response in relatively weak (the probability that an inactive wiman enters economic activity is aroung 6%, and the probability that a par-time working woman enters full-time employment in such circumstances is around 8%.
Interestingly, we find that provision of public childcare does not affect the magnitude of woman's response significantly.
This study was published as a registered report in the journal Plos One.

With head of LabFam, Anna Matysiak in Committee on Demographic Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences❤️

🇬🇧🔽 1️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ badaczek i badaczy z Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego zajęło łącznie 1️⃣1️⃣7️⃣ miejsc w 3️⃣2️⃣ komitetach naukowych Polska Akademia Nauk w kadencji 2024-2027. Gratulujemy❗️
Więcej informacji na stronie UW 👉 https://www.uw.edu.pl/badacze-z-uw-w-komitetach-naukowych-pan/

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1️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ researchers from the University of Warsaw took 1️⃣1️⃣7️⃣ seats in 3️⃣2️⃣ scientific committees of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the term 2024-2027. Congratulations!

➡SAVE THE DATE ✅ seminar series is back‼
Differences in Performance: The Role of External Environments
See you on Tuesday, 9th of January, 1PM CET📎
Enrol here 👉https://labfam.uw.edu.pl/seminars/gender-differences-in-performance-the-role-of-external-testing-environments-2/

The welcoming doors of Oxford University, and another meeting of the project consortium proudly participates in‼ Anna Matysiak and An Ku

is literally everywhere 😀, even as far as ‼️ Our colleague
Agnieszka Kasperska presented a paper on how organisational factors moderate the impact of on careers (post-covid) at the Economic Science Association Meeting in Cape Town‼️

Check out our latest
from and perceived changes to work-life balance among mothers
and fathers during the COVID-19 by An Ku Agnieszka Kasperska and Gayle Kaufman.
Better access to work from home (WFH) during the COVID-19 pandemic offered
parents the possibility to accommodate increasing childcare needs, but at the same time it led to an unprecedented scale of workers performing paid and care work simultaneously. The overall effects of WFH on work-life balance (WLB) during the pandemic are thus not clear. In our study we argue that three important moderators alter the positive relationship between WFH on perceived changes to WLB during the pandemic: i) time that children spent at home due to the pandemic, ii) change in parent’s working hours during the pandemic and iii) presence of a partner
in the household. We place particular interest in gender differences for these effects. 📎We use unique data from the Familydemic Survey, conducted between June and September 2021, on a representative sample of 9,364 mothers and fathers living with at least one child aged less than 12 in six countries (Canada, Italy, Germany, Poland, Sweden and the US). We find evidence showing that WFH was positively related to perceived change in WLB among mothers and fathers, regardless of partnership status.
➡However, the positive effect was weaker among those mothers whose child(ren) stayed at home due to childcare closures for longer than a month.
▶The positive relationship among mothers disappeared if women increased their working hours during the pandemic. In addition, we found a negative relationship between WFH and WLB among fathers who increased their working hours during the pandemic.
✅We also provide evidence that mothers (compared to fathers), parents whose children were out of childcare for six months or more (compared to other parents) and parents who increased their working hours (compared to other parents) were more likely to report worsened work-life balance during the pandemic.
READ MORE �https://www.wne.uw.edu.pl/application/files/4717/0144/7913/WNE_WP436.pdf

What are the career consequences of work-family reconciliation policy measures introduced in the EU Work-Life Balance Directive⁉ Another new research opportunity thanks to a new grant ➡we will study the impact of parental leaves and flexible working arrangements on workers’ career prospects from a gender perspective‼ Do parental leaves carry the same career penalties as the use of flexible work arrangements such as home-based work, taking into account their different effect for men and for women⁉ Ready to find out‼

Exploring population heterogeneities conference at the premises of the Austrian Academy of Sciences✅Anna Matysiak, head of is talking about labour market, fertility, globalistion, technological change‼️

An Ku - vice head of was presenting at the webinar ▶Parenting in high stress contexts. Our project - and in particular, latest reports from 6️⃣ European countries were also discussed 👉

Parenting in high stress contexts, webinar 29Nov 2023 Parenting can be stressful and challenging across contexts, and is made even more difficult when families face financial insecurity, poverty, racism, discrim...

3 ...2... 1... WINTER SCHOOL ON POPULATION HETEROGENEITIES has been launched ‼️
Anna Matysiak, Head of LabFam is one of course instructors
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/events/calendar/seminars/winter-school-on-population-heterogeneities

We're happy to announce that we've received a grant to explore and regional disparities in participation in (online/on-site) professional ! The research will be supported by Excellence Initiative 👉STAY TUNED 😀https://labfam.uw.edu.pl/new-grant-new-study-exploring-gender-and-regional-disparities-in-participation-in-online-on-site-professional-events/

Exploring with families 👉 this study brings the voice of families to the fore on need for a more robust approach to supporting families! We're proudly presenting rEUsilience latest reports, published today, from 6️⃣ countries including
Learn the findings of focus groups involving over 300 family members 💡
Here's the link to summary of the 👉 Polish study https://labfam.uw.edu.pl/exploring-resilience-with-families-this-study-brings-the-voice-of-families-to-the-fore-on-need-for-a-more-robust-approach-to-supporting-families/

On 17-19 April 2024, an early-career training school on ‘Work-care policies, gender, and social inequalities’ will be organized in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The school is organized in the course of the 🇪🇺EU COST Action Sustainability@Leave Who knows, we might apply and meet you there 😀
APPLY HERE 👉http://www.caas.unizg.hr/

Type of and of working : does working in the public sector or in a large private firm matter⁉️
⏺This work investigates how fertility rates of working women have been influenced by employer characteristics ( versus sector and small versus large firms) and features of the employment contracts using a representative sample of Italian working women in the last 3️⃣0️⃣ years of the twentieth century. In particular, we find that women working in the public sector have a higher probability of having a child during a working spell than women working in the private sector.
〽Furthermore, women working in large private sector firms, who enjoy stronger employment protection, have a higher probability of having a than those working in smaller firms. In turn, more-stable contracts also increase the likelihood of having a child during a working spell.
✅Results are robust to controlling for individual unobserved heterogeneity and for the possible endogeneity of working in the public sector.
READ MORE 👉https://academic.oup.com/cje/article/37/6/1303/1730517

A new book on social research
For 5️⃣0️⃣ years, researchers at UCL’s Thomas Coram Research Unit have been undertaking ground-breaking policy-relevant social research. Their main focus has been social issues affecting , young people and families, and the services provided for them. for our Times brings together different generations of researchers from the Unit to share some of the most important results of their studies. Two sections focus on the main findings and conclusions from research into children and children services, and on family life, minoritised groups and gender. A third is then devoted to the innovative methods that have been developed and used to undertake research in these complex areas. Running through the book is a key strategic question: what should be the relationship between research and policy? Or put another way, what does ‘policy relevant research’ mean? This perennial question has gained new importance in the post- , post- world that we have entered, making this text a timely intervention for sharing decades of experience. Taking a unique opportunity to reflect on research context as well as research findings, this book will be of interest to researchers, teachers, students and those involved in policy making both in and beyond dedicated research units, and can be read as a whole or sampled for individual standalone chapters.
READ MORE 👉https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/211074?utm_source=Jiscmail&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=UCL23MC1304J

In our latest Working Paper we analyse Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Work From Home on in the Post- Context 👉 based on our own unique ▶discrete choice experiment fielded between July
and December 2022 among 1,000 managers in UK , we show that teleworkers, whether in hybrid or fulltime WFH arrangements, face a disadvantageous evaluation by managers compared to their office-based counterparts
〽️The adverse effect of hybrid teleworking is due to the fact that employers consider hybrid workers are less productive than onsite workers.
⏰Full-time teleworkers are penalized even if they display the same performance at work as onsite workers.
❌We demonstrate this penalty to be driven by the fact that managers consider full-time teleworkers to be less committed to work than onsite workers.
✅Consistently with past research, we also find that WFH affects workers’ careers differently depending on their gender and parental obligations and
that managers’ assumptions about workers’ performance and commitment allow to explain at least some of these differences
READ MORE 👉https://labfam.uw.edu.pl/publications/mechanisms-underlying-the-effects-of-work-from-home-on-careers-in-the-post-covid-context/

Amongst all the fears and doubts related to AI development and its influence on labour market, research integrity and our everyday lives, something positive 📌🎼🎹🥇
November 2 marks the release of the first “new” song by the Beatles since 1995. “Now and Then” is available on streaming services (with an Atmos mix where supported), and the story behind the song’s production is one that’s drawn a lot of interest from fans of the iconic rock band. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr turned to breakthrough technology and machine learning to piece together a finished track from an old lo-fi John Lennon recording.

Listen to the very last new song by The Beatles, called Now and Then The song would’ve never been finished without AI’s help.

“I hate all the , especially mine”: Applying relational dialectics theory to examine the experiences of formerly regretful

Guided by relational dialectics theory (RDT), the authors analyzed 85 first-person testimonials of parental regret written by users of the /r/childfree subreddit.
The authors interrogated how competing discourses animate what it means to be a parent (semantic object). Contrapuntal analysis revealed dominant and marginalized Discourses of Parenting as Heaven (DPHN) and Parenting as Hell on Earth (DPHL), respectively, as well as a third Discourse of Parenting as (the Only) Choice (DPOC).
The authors identified 3️⃣ kinds of dialogically contractive practices including a new form we call fear of missing out ( ), 2️⃣ forms of diachronic separation, 4️⃣ forms of synchronic interplay including a new form we introduce (i.e., allying) that is useful when more than two discourses compete, and 1️⃣ form of dialogic .
The authors argue that FOMO serves as a for diachronic separation.
READ MORE 👉https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02654075231194363

👉Data from Eurostat and Statista reveals which European countries have the highest percentage of remote workers.

✅The Netherlands is the European Union country with the highest proportion of workers working remotely, according to new research.

▶The COVID-19 pandemic saw a radical shift in the number of people working remotely, with lockdowns and restrictions forcing companies to adopt flexible working policies.

Remote, a global HR solutions company, has now mapped the rise in remote work across the European Union from the start of the pandemic in 2020 to the end of 2022.

Ranked: The EU countries the most open to remote work Data from Eurostat and Statista reveals which European countries have the highest percentage of remote workers.

The Economist podcast episode ✅ How to manage hybrid working⁉️

How to manage hybrid working | Boss Class episode 2 Episode two of our new podcast series on the secrets to good management looks at hybrid working

Is it possible to increase the fertility rate in 🇵🇱Poland⁉️
Low fertility rates in Poland have been reported since the late
1990s, resulting in population decline as a consequence.
Reasons for the low rate are to be associated with:

〽️demographics – the number of women of reproductive age tends to fall from generation to generation
💰an ineffective and unstable family policy
❌social factors, such as a sense of insecurity experienced by many young couples and various “costs” of motherhood, which may affect women’s procreative choices
(including the situation of mothers in the labour market, their
“threefold burden” as well as the model of a “mother’s sacrifice”
and the related social pressure).
The experience of European countries has shown that the highest
total fertility rates are achieved in countries with a stable family
policy based on two objectives:
▶️striving to find a balance between mothers and fathers
➡️in terms of parental responsibilities and caregiving;
helping parents combine work and family.
READ MORE �https://ibs.org.pl/app/uploads/2021/05/Is-it-possible-to-increase-the-fertility-rate-in-Poland.pdf

Millennials are facing an elder care crisis nobody prepared them for.
As the baby boomer generation, born between 1946 and 1964, enters the period of life when, statistically, most people need some form of care, experts say that more millennials — as well as Gen X and Gen Z Americans — will find themselves in a position similar to Singleton’s, supporting an older relative with everything from specialized medical care to handling paperwork to daily tasks such as bathing and eating.

Baby boomers are aging. Their kids aren’t ready. Millennials are facing an elder care crisis nobody prepared them for.