The diversity in longitudinal partnership trajectories during the transition to adulthood: How is it related to individual characteristics and regional living conditions?

Fulda, Barbara

doi:10.4054/demres.2016.35.37

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“…The Heterogeneity of Partnership Trajectories to Childlessness… in the partnership trajectories of East and West German childless-contrary to what is usually found for the general population (Fulda 2016).…”

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“…Based on evidence on the general German population, we further expect that highly educated persons are more often engaged in LAT relationships, cohabit later, and marry later and less often than their lower-educated counterparts. Regarding gender, differences in partnership trajectories should mainly pertain to timing, with women cohabiting and marrying at a younger age (Fulda 2016). Finally, previous findings on union histories to childlessness suggest that we will observe a high share of never partnered persons.…”

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confidence: 79%

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The Heterogeneity of Partnership Trajectories to Childlessness in Germany

Raab

Struffolino

2019

Eur J Population

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In recent decades, childlessness has increased across many European countries. In addition to socioeconomic characteristics, having a partner is considered a prerequisite in most fertility studies. Yet, still little is known about the partnership biographies of childless women and men. We assess the heterogeneity in the partnership trajectories of childless persons in Germany and explore compositional differences of partnership trajectories by gender and education. We use data from the German Family Panel to reconstruct partnership biographies reflecting the occurrence and frequency of different partnership states (singleness, living apart together, cohabitation, marriage). The sample comprises women and men born 1971-1973 whose life courses are observed from age 18-40. Applying sequence and cluster analysis, we identify five patterns of partnership trajectories: (1) 'Marriage' (14.6%); (2) 'Longterm cohabitation' (11.8%) with one partner; (3) 'Serial cohabitation' (15.6%); (4) 'LAT' (18.8%), long-term/multiple living-apart-together relationships; and (5) 'Single' (39.3%), long-term singleness. Men are overrepresented in the 'Single' cluster, especially if highly educated. Women are more often married and more likely to experience long-lasting singleness or multiple LAT episodes when being highly educated. We speculate that theories predicting high levels of childlessness in contexts where gender norms and work-family policies do not account for the increasing gender equality in education and labor force participation might also explain differences in the pathways leading to childlessness. Generally, our findings point at a more elaborate conceptualization of childlessness that moves away from a binary cross-sectional indicator and set the ground for future cross-national comparisons.

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confidence: 79%

The Heterogeneity of Partnership Trajectories to Childlessness in Germany

Raab

Struffolino

2019

Eur J Population

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“…A similar research strategy has been developed by Potârcă, Mills, and Lesnard (2013) for Romania, the Russian Federation, and France, by Fulda (2016) for Germany, by Kleinepier and de Valk (2016) for the Netherlands, by Hart and Lyngstad (2016) for Norway, and by Jalovaara and Fasang (2015) for Finland. However, these studies focus on broader life course trajectories where cohabitation is only one among several choices and where all the different kinds of cohabitation would collapse into one or very few clusters, making it hard to detect heterogeneity within the cohabitation experience.…”

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The changing pattern of cohabitation: A sequence analysis approach

Giulio¹,

Impicciatore²,

Sironi³

2019

DemRes

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BACKGROUND During the last decades, nonmarital cohabitation has diffused throughout the industrialised world, although not uniformly. The Second Demographic Transition (SDT) predicts a convergence of cohabitation patterns towards a final stage in which cohabitation and marriage will be almost indistinguishable. OBJECTIVE This paper contributes to the literature on the convergence of cohabitation patterns across countries by testing whether countries are becoming more similar over time, as suggested by the SDT. METHODS We use sequence analysis and cluster analysis techniques to classify different patterns of cohabitation in France, Italy, Norway, Bulgaria, and the United States. Using data mainly stemming from the Gender and Generations Surveys (GGS), we analyse women's patterns of behaviour during the five years following the start of their first cohabitation, over a time span of three decades (1970s-2000s). RESULTS On the basis of sequencing the events of childbirth, marriage, and separation we are able to identify five different clusters corresponding to different ways of going through the cohabitation experience.

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“…8 For further details, see Abbott and Tsay (2000), which is one of the available methods. The high flexibility of this method makes it possible to compare sequences that are partly similar but shifted (Fulda 2016; Scherer and Bruedel 2006 as cited in Fulda 2016), and the good performance in similar studies that used OMA (Fuller and Martin 2012; Fuller 2014; Fulda 2016) justify this choice. The distance between each pair of sequences is the number of operations (deletion, insertion, and substitution) to transform one sequence into another.…”

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Family reunification – who, when, and how? Family trajectories among migrants in Italy

Belgiojoso¹,

Terzera²

2018

DemRes

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BACKGROUND Family reunification of migrants in their destination country is often the result of a process that includes one or more steps and combines family and migration events. However, the lack of relevant data often limits the possibility of studying all these stages. OBJECTIVE The paper aims to identify family migration models by means of the entire family migration trajectory, highlighting the relationship of these models with the migration project and with the family, cultural, and gender norms of the country of origin. METHODS We used sequence analysis on a large sample of resident families with at least one foreign-born member in Italy, using data collected by the Italian Institute of Statistics in 2011-2012. We focused exclusively on migrants from less developed countries and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. RESULTS Our results indicate that family characteristics and stability in the host country are not always relevant for family reunification. Family, cultural, and gender norms of the home country and the nature of the migration project itself determine the family migration model. When the migration project becomes orientated, or converges over time to settlement, family reunification is pursued regardless of the possible difficulties and conditions during emigration. Conversely, during the time that migrants are maintaining a temporary project, family reunification is not even considered. CONTRIBUTION Adopting a longitudinal approach, we generalised and extended previous results, considering migrants from additional countries and studying the reunification of all

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The diversity in longitudinal partnership trajectories during the transition to adulthood: How is it related to individual characteristics and regional living conditions?

Cited by 21 publications

References 28 publications

The Heterogeneity of Partnership Trajectories to Childlessness in Germany

The Heterogeneity of Partnership Trajectories to Childlessness in Germany

The changing pattern of cohabitation: A sequence analysis approach

Family reunification – who, when, and how? Family trajectories among migrants in Italy

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