Demografie, Review for Population Research - No. 1/2023

Demografie, 65(1): 3–22
https://doi.org/10.54694/dem.0314

Abstract
This paper examines how couples with children aged 14 or under provided full-time childcare during three major Covid-19 lockdowns in Czechia. The analyses are based on the most recent data from the Czech GGS Covid pilot collected between December 2020 and February 2021, with a follow-up in April 2021. The results show that in all three lockdown periods, women were significantly more likely to be the ones left solely responsible for providing all-day childcare in the couple, even they were working as well as their partner. The odds of the woman being the sole provider of childcare increased with decreasing age and education, but also with the inability to flexibly adjust working hours.

Keywords
Childcare, gendered division of care, fathers’ involvement, lockdown, Covid-19, Czechia, GGS

Demografie, 65(1): 31–48
https://doi.org/10.54694/dem.0313

Abstract
The advance of maintenance payment is a recently introduced social benefit that has existed in the Czech Republic since July 2021 and is available to parents as support for dependent children if the parents are not receiving adequate maintenance payments from their co-parent, i.e. the amount of support they receive is low or they receive nothing at all. In Slovakia, the history of this social benefit payment goes back to 2004, and the conditions for its provision have been released several times. Compared to the Czech Republic, in Slovakia the conditions for the provision of this social benefit are more open, more children are supported, and higher sums are spent on this benefit from the state budget. Also, the average amount of this benefit is higher in the Slovak Republic than in the Czech Republic, even in relation to the living minimum for a dependent child.

Keywords
advance of maintenance payment, divorce, single parents, parent's maintenance obligation, conditions for providing advance of maintenance payment in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic

Demografie, 65(1): 49–60
https://doi.org/10.54694/dem.0315

Abstract
The educational structures of partnerships have been studied intensively in the Czech Republic in the last two decades. Most research on educational homogamy in marriages in the Czech Republic covers the time period up to the year 2016, and the educational structure of cohabitations over time is still an unexplored subject. In this study, the educational structure of marriages and cohabitations is analysed using data from the European Social Survey and vital statistics from the years 2010–2020.

Keywords
educational structure of partnerships, educational homogamy, marriage, cohabitation, Czech Republic