Household, Work and Flexibility - HWF家庭，工作和灵活性- HWF.docVIP

Households, Work and Flexibility Literature Survey: Czech Republic Jiri Vecernik and Petra Stepankova Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences and CERGE/EI, Prague Contents 1. Labor market 3 A) Job transitions 3 B) Determinants of job transition 3 C) Regional mobility - flexibility in terms of place 3 D) Flexibility of unemployed persons 4 2. Social Reporting 4 A) Flows and shifts on the labor market 5 3. Gender Studies 6 A) Household work 6 B) Women in paid employment 7 C) Gender disparities 8 4. In Conclusion 8 References: 9 Main sources of empirical data: 11 At the outset we have to admit that it is very difficult to find any literature concerning work and household flexibility in the Czech Republic. The explanation for this may be twofold. On the one hand, appropriate data are lacking, and on the other, long-term policies aimed at improving flexibility have not been perceived as urgently important by policymakers in the early years of transition, when employment was high due to generous state support of large firms. Currently the issue of work flexibility has been perceived as adverse to the social and economic policies of the Social Democratic government. No attempts to examine time budgets or household work patterns have been made by the Czech Statistical Office since 1989, and only standard variables concerning work contracts are described in Labor Force Surveys. Sociological surveys, however, can provide some deeper insight. Here we have collected scarce available information which is indirectly provided by the few economic and sociological studies that deal with our themes. Concretely speaking, we are drawing on three different sources that are partially related to work and household flexibility: labor economics literature, social reporting and gender studies. This is only a brief review of studies and literature. Most of the relevant information is yet to be collected and our work will be resumed in our Labor market and work flexibility in the Czech R