Distance to old parents

Malmberg, Gunnar; Pettersson, Anna

doi:10.4054/demres.2007.17.23

Cited by 68 publications

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“…Defining "far away" using a threshold of 50 km is common in migration studies in Sweden (Malmberg & Pettersson, 2007). Also, country-specific Kernel distributions for Sweden, Australia, Great Britain, and Germany reveal that migration rates level off between 40 and 60 km across these different countries, which corroborates the validity of a 50-km threshold for defining long-distance migration (Vidal, Perales, Lersch, & Brandén, 2017).…”

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confidence: 53%

Can the trailing spouse phenomenon be explained by employer recruitment choices?

Brandén

Bygren

Gähler

2018

Population Space and Place

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It is well known that couples tend to relocate for the sake of the man's career rather than the woman's, also known as the “trailing spouse phenomenon.” The role of employer choices in this process is unknown however. If employers are hesitant to make job offers to women who live a long way from the workplace (e.g., because of work–family balance concerns or a perceived risk that they will not follow through on their applications, or stay hired if employed), this tendency might constitute an underlying mechanism behind the moving premium of partnered men. Ours is the first study to empirically test whether employers prefer geographically distant men over geographically distant women. We sent applications for 1,410 job openings in the Swedish labour market, randomly assigning gender and parental status to otherwise equivalent applications from cohabiting or married women and men and recorded employer callbacks to these. The results indicate that employers in general tend to disfavour job applicants who live a long way from the employer's workplace. This tendency is stronger for women, both for mothers and for women with no children. Our estimated effects are imprecise but clearly suggest that employer recruitment choices contribute to the trailing spouse phenomenon by offering men a larger pool of geographically distant jobs. We call for more research on this hitherto ignored mechanism behind the trailing spouse phenomenon.

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Can the trailing spouse phenomenon be explained by employer recruitment choices?

Brandén

Bygren

Gähler

2018

Population Space and Place

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“…24 19 Completed fertility in Norway is 1.9 children and has been fairly stable since the mid-1970 (Hoel, 2009). 20 Malmberg and Pettersson (2007) find that adult children in Sweden who are female, well-educated, and childless are more likely to live in a different region than their elderly parents. 21 Registry data links children to their mothers, so the number of children for married men at age 34 is constructed by linking married men to their spouses.…”

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Your Place or Mine? On the Residence Choice of Young Couples in Norway

2012

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“…For bringing up children, it might be considered important to maintain everyday contact with members of the extended family who live close by (Malmberg & Pettersson, 2007;Mulder & Cooke, 2009). Strongly locally attached couples can be expected to be more often found in rural areas, as feelings of closeness with one's place of residence, emotional attachment to the landscape, and social commitments are more frequent in rural compared to urban areas (Andersen, 2009;Fischer & Malmberg, 2001;Hank, 2007).…”

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Effects of female commuting on partnership stability in suburban and other residential regions

Kley¹,

Feldhaus

2017

Population Space and Place

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Long‐distance commuting between home and the place of work is a means to combine both labour market participation and staying embedded in family and local social networks. But commuters often report high stress levels due to their commute and negative outcomes on their family life. Recent findings suggest that long commutes are harmful for partnership stability, especially if women commute. This contribution analyses the questions whether these findings can be replicated with a representative cohort panel study from Germany (pairfam), whether the expected negative outcome of female commuting is robust against partnership quality and labour division, and whether the risk of separation varies systematically across urban, suburban, and rural areas. Discrete event history models are applied to estimate the risk of separation for about 2,500 couples over 3 years (N = 49,408 person‐months). The findings indicate that women's long commuting is normally harmful for partnership stability but with one important exception: not if the couple lives in a suburban area. The article discusses whether the spatial variation in the influence of female commuting might be due to self‐selection processes in the course of family formation.

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Distance to old parents

Cited by 68 publications

References 26 publications

Can the trailing spouse phenomenon be explained by employer recruitment choices?

Can the trailing spouse phenomenon be explained by employer recruitment choices?

Your Place or Mine? On the Residence Choice of Young Couples in Norway

Effects of female commuting on partnership stability in suburban and other residential regions

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