Volume 40 - Article 7 | Pages 155–184
Does moving for family nest-building inhibit mothers' labour force (re-)entry?
By Stefanie Kley, Sonja Drobnič
References
Abraham, M., Auspurg, K., and Hinz, T. (2010). Migration decisions within dual-earner partnerships: A test of bargaining theory. Journal of Marriage and Family 72(4): 876–892.
Bauernschuster, S. and Rainer, H. (2012). Political regimes and the family: How sex-role attitudes continue to differ in reunified Germany. Journal of Population Economics 25(1): 5–27.
Becker, G.S. (1985). Human capital, effort and the sexual division of labour. Journal of Labour Economics 3(1): 33–58.
Begall, K. and Grunow, D. (2015). Labour force transitions around first childbirth in the Netherlands. European Sociological Review 31(6): 697–712.
Bielby, W.T. and Bielby, D.D. (1992). I will follow him: Family ties, gender-role beliefs, and reluctance to relocate for a better job. American Journal of Sociology 97(5): 1241–1267.
Blossfeld, H.-P. and Drobnič, S. (2001). Careers of couples in contemporary society: From male breadwinner to dual-earner families. Oxford: University Press.
Blossfeld, H.-P., Golsch, K., and Rohwer, G. (2007). Techniques of event history modeling using Stata. New approaches to causal analysis. Mahwah: Erlbaum.
Boyle, P., Cooke, T.J., Halfacree, K., and Smith, D. (2001). A cross-national comparison of the impact of family migration on women’s employment status. Demography 38(2): 201–213.
Boyle, P., Feng, Z., and Gayle, V. (2009). A new look at family migration and women’s employment status. Journal of Marriage and Family 71(2): 417–431.
Clark, W.A.V and Maas, R. (2015). Interpreting migration through the prism of reasons for moves. Population, Space and Place 21(1): 54–67.
Clark, W.A.V., Deurloo, M.C., and Dieleman, F.M. (1994). Tenure changes in the context of micro-level family and macro-level economic shifts. Urban Studies 31(1): 137–154.
Cleves, M.A., Gould, W.W., Gutierrez, R.G., and Marchenko, Y.V. (2010). An introduction to survival analysis using Stata. College Station: Stata Press.
Cooke, T.J. (2008). Migration in a family way. Population, Space and Place 14(4): 255–265.
Cooke, T.J., Boyle, P., Couch, K., and Feijten, P. (2009). A longitudinal analysis of family migration and the gender gap in earnings in the United States and Great Britain. Demography 46(1): 147–167.
Cox, D.R. (1972). Regression models and life-tables. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 34(2): 187–220.
De Jong, G.F. and Fawcett, J.T. (1981). Motivations for migration: An assessment and a value expectancy research model. In: De Jong, G.F. and Gardner, R.W. (eds.). Migration decision making. New York: Pergamon Press: 13–58.
Desai, S. and Waite, L.J. (1991). Women’s employment during pregnancy and after the first birth: Occupational characteristics and work commitment. American Sociological Association 56(4): 551–566.
Drasch, K. (2013). Educational attainment and family-related employment interruptions in Germany: Do changing institutional settings matter? European Sociological Review 29(5): 981–995.
Drobnič, S. (2000). The effects of children on married and lone mothers’ employment in the United States and (West) Germany. European Sociological Review 16(2): 137–157.
Drobnič, S., Blossfeld, H.-P., and Rohwer, G. (1999). Dynamics of women’s employment patterns over the family life course: A comparison of the United States and Germany. Journal of Marriage and the Family 61(1): 133–146.
Estes, S.B. and Glass, J.L. (1996). Job changes following childbirth: Are women trading compensation for family-responsive work conditions? Work and Occupations 23(4): 405–436.
Fagan, C. and Warren, T. (2001). Gender, employment and working time preferences in Europe. Dublin: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living Conditions.
Feijten, P. and Mulder, C.H. (2002). The timing of household events and housing events in the Netherlands: A longitudinal perspective. Housing Studies 17(5): 773–792.
Fishbein, M. and Ajzen, I. (2010). Predicting and changing behavior: The reasoned action approach. New York: Taylor and Francis.
Gangl, M. and Ziefle, A. (2015). The making of a good woman: Extended parental leave entitlements and mothers’ work commitment in Germany. American Journal of Sociology 121(2): 511–563.
Gash, V. (2008). Preference or constraint? Part-time workers’ transitions in Denmark, France and the United Kingdom. Work, Employment and Society 22(4): 655–674.
Hakim, C. (2000). Work-lifestyle choices in the 21st century: Preference theory. Oxford: University Press.
Huinink, J. and Kohli, M. (2014). A life course approach to fertility. Demographic Research 30(45): 1293–1326.
Janus, A.L. (2013). The gap between mothers’ work-family orientations and employment trajectories in 18 OECD countries. European Sociological Review 29(4): 752–766.
Kanji, S. (2011). What keeps mothers in full-time employment? European Sociological Review 27(4): 509–525.
Kley, S. (2011). Explaining the stages of migration within a life-course framework. European Sociological Review 27(4): 469–486.
Kulu, H. (2008). Fertility and spatial mobility in the life course: Evidence from Austria. Environment and Planning A 40(3): 632–652.
Kulu, H., Boyle, P.J., and Andersson, G. (2009). High suburban fertility: Evidence from four northern European countries. Demographic Research 21(31): 915–944.
Kulu, H. and Steele, F. (2013). Interrelationships between childbearing and housing transitions in the family life course. Demography 50(5): 1687–1714.
Lauster, N. (2010). Housing and the proper performance of American motherhood, 1940–2005. Housing Studies 25(4): 543–557.
Lee, B.S. and McDonald, J. (2003). Determinants of commuting time and distance for Seoul residents: The impact of family status on the commuting of women. Urban Studies 40(7): 1283–1302.
Lersch, P. (2016). Family migration and subsequent employment: The effect of gender ideology. Journal of Marriage and Family 78(1): 230–245.
Lersch, P. (2014a). Geburten und die Wohnraumversorgung von Familien: Anpassungen der Wohnung im zeitlichen Verlauf [Childbirth and room stress among families: Housing adjustments over time]. Zeitschrift für Soziologie 43(2): 131–149.
Lersch, P. (2014b). Residential relocations and their consequences: Life course effects in England and Germany. Wiesbaden: Springer.
Lersch, P. and Uunk, W. (2017). The shadow of future homeownership: The association of wanting to move into homeownership with labour supply. Work, Employment and Society 41(4): 522–541.
MacDonald, H. (1999). Women’s employment and commuting: Explaining the links. Journal of Planning Literature 13(3): 267–283.
Matthews, H., Taylor, M., Sherwood, K., Tucker, F., and Limb, M. (2000). Growing-up in the countryside: Children and the rural idyll. Journal of Rural Studies 16(2): 141–153.
Matysiak, A. and Steinmetz, S. (2008). Finding their way? Female employment patterns in West Germany, East Germany, and Poland. European Sociological Review 24(3): 331–345.
McRae, S. (2003). Constraints and choices in mothers’ employment careers: A consideration of Hakim’s Preference Theory. British Journal of Sociology 54(3): 317–338.
Mincer, J. (1978). Family migration decisions. Journal of Political Economy 86(749–773).
Mulder, C.H. and Wagner, M. (1993). Migration and marriage in the life course: A method for studying synchronized events. European Journal of Population 9(1): 55–76.
Mulder, C.H. and Wagner, M. (2001). The connections between family formation and first-time home ownership in the context of West Germany and the Netherlands. European Journal of Population 17(2): 137–164.
Nisic, N. (2009). Labour market outcomes of spatially mobile coupled women: Why is the locational context important? Schmollers Jahrbuch 129(2): 203–215.
Nisic, N. (2017). Smaller differences in bigger cities? Assessing the regional dimension of the gender wage gap. European Sociological Review 33(2): 292–304.
Rosenfeld, R.A., Trappe, H., and Gornick, J.C. (2004). Gender and work in Germany: Before and after reunification. Annual Review of Sociology 30(1): 103–124.
Rossi, P.H. (1980 [1955]). Why families move. Beverly Hills: Sage.
Sandor, E. (2011). European Company Survey 2009: Part-time work in Europe. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.
Sayer, L.C. and Gornick, J.C. (2012). Cross-national variation in the influence of employment hours on child care time. European Sociological Review 28(4): 421–442.
Shauman, K.A. (2010). Gender asymmetry in family migration: Occupational inequality or interspousal comparative advantage? Journal of Marriage and Family 72(2): 375–392.
Shihadeh, E.S. (1991). The prevalence of husband-centred migration: Employment consequences for married mothers. Journal of Marriage and the Family 53(2): 432–444.
SOEP (2016). Socio-Economic Panel data for years 1984–2014, version 31.1 [electronic resource]. Berlin: German Institute for Economic Research.
Stockdale, A. and Catney, G. (2014). A life course perspective on urban–rural migration: The importance of the local context. Population, Space and Place 20(1): 83–98.
Trappe, H., Pollmann-Schult, M., and Schmitt, C. (2015). The rise and decline of the male breadwinner model: Institutional underpinnings and future expectations. European Sociological Review 31(2): 230–242.
van Dam, F., Heins, S., and Elbersen, B.S. (2002). Lay discourses of the rural and stated and revealed preferences for rural living: Some evidence of the existence of a rural idyll in the Netherlands. Journal of Rural Studies 18(4): 461–476.
Vidal, S., Huinink, J., and Feldhaus, M. (2017). Fertility intentions and residential relocations. Demography 54(4): 1305–1330.
Vidal, S., Perales, F., and Baxter, J. (2016). Dynamics in domestic labor across short- and long-distance family relocations. Journal of Marriage and Family 78(2): 364–382.
Vidal, S., Perales, F., Lersch, P., and Brandén, M. (2017). Family migration in a cross-national perspective: The importance of institutional and cultural context. Demographic Research 36(10): 307–338.
Wagner, G., Frick, J., and Schupp, J. (2007). The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): Scope, evolution and enhancements. Berlin: German Institute for Economic Research (SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 1).
Willekens, F. (1987). Migration and development: A micro-perspective. Journal of Institute of Economic Research 22(2): 51–68.
Winship, C. and Radbill, L. (1994). Sampling weights and regression analysis. Sociological Methods and Research 23(2): 230–257.
Ziefle, A. and Gangl, M. (2014). Do women respond to changes in family policy? A quasi-experimental study of the duration of mothers’ employment interruptions in Germany. European Sociological Review 30(5): 562–581.