PhD in Economics, Warsaw School of Economics (PhD dissertation „On the interdependencies between fertility and women’s labour supply”), MSc in Economics and Quantitative Methods and Information Systems, Warsaw School of Economics. Since 2003 she has employed at the Institute of Statistics and Demography (Warsaw School of Economics). In the years 2003-2005 she worked at the Gdansk Institute for Market Economies and has been cooperating with the Institute thereafter. In the years 2005-2007 she was staying at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research where she obtained a European Research Master of Demography. For her scientific achievements Foundation for Polish Science awarded her with a scholarship START 2007-2008. Her research interests cover family dynamics and its interrelationships with other socio-economic processes and the institutional context. In particular she is interested in the interdependencies between fertility, women’s labour supply and women’s educational activity. She is also experienced in demographic forecasting as well as in projecting social security expenditures.

http://www.sgh.waw.pl/prywatne/amatys

Selected publications:

1. Matysiak A., Employment first, then childbearing: women's strategies in postsocialist Poland. Population Studies (forthcoming)
2. Matysiak, A, Is Poland really ‘immune’ to the spread of cohabitation? Demographic Research (forthcoming)
3. Matysiak A., Steinmetz S. 2008. Finding Their Way? Female Employment Patterns in West Germany, East Germany, and Poland. European Sociological Review 24(3): 331-345
4. Matysiak A., Vignoli D. 2008. Fertility and women’s employment: a meta-analysis. European Journal of Population 24:363–384
5. Kotowska I.E., Jóźwiak J., Matysiak A., Baranowska A., Poland: Fertility decline as a response to profound societal change and transformations in the labour market? Demographic Research 19, Article 22, p. 795-854
6. Matysiak A., Nowok B., 2007, Stochastic forecast of the population of Poland. Demographic Research 17: 301-338
7. Kotowska I.E., Matysiak A., 2008. Reconciliation of work and family under different institutional settings. In: Höhn Ch., Avramov D., Kotowska, I.E. (eds.), People, Population Change and Policies: Lessons from the Population Policy Acceptance Study, Den Hague: Springer p. 347-370
8. Matysiak A. 2007. Organizacja czasu pracy i opieki (Reconciling family and work). In: Kotowska I.E., Sztanderska U., Wóycicka I. (eds.), Aktywność zawodowa i edukacyjna a obowiązki rodzinne w Polsce w świetle badań empirycznych (Economic and educational activity and family responsibilities in Poland), Warsaw: Scholar Publishing, p. 345-382
9. Matysiak A. 2007. Indywidualne przesłanki zwiększenia aktywności zawodowej (Individual prerequisities for increasing economic activity). In: Kotowska I.E., Sztanderska U., Wóycicka I.(eds.), Aktywność zawodowa i edukacyjna a obowiązki rodzinne w Polsce w świetle badań empirycznych (Economic and educational activity and family responsibilities in Poland), Warsaw: Scholar Publishing, p. 383-403
10. Kotowska I.E., Matysiak A. 2007. Rynek pracy (Labour market). In: Panek T. Statystyka Społeczna (Social Statistics), Warsaw: Polish Scientific Publishing, p. 164-205