The paper investigates social determinants of wives' labour force interruptions related to childbearing. It focuses on the mechanism of this decision in Hungarian families under the circumstances of Communist (post-Communist) economic and political system with their special policy measures on...

Maternity benefits system played a great part in reducing for a given point of time characteristics of labour force demand. In the 90s under the changed circumstances the role of maternity benefits system was revalued. In April 1996 the child care fee was eliminated and the child care allowance...