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ArticleDemography2020

Interdependencies in Mothers' and Daughters' Work-Family Life Course Trajectories: Similar but Different?

Sergi Vidal, Philipp M Lersch, Marita Jacob, Karsten Hank

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Article in Demography, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  1. Work-family trajectories and health: A systematic review.Advances in life course research · 2022
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Sergi VidalCampus UAB, Centre for Demographic Studies, Edifici E2, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. svidal@ced.uab.es.
Philipp M LerschUnter den Linden 6, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10099, Berlin, Germany.
Marita JacobUniversity of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, Cologne, 50923, Germany.
Karsten HankUniversity of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, Cologne, 50923, Germany.

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Abstract

Women's life courses underwent substantial changes in the family and work domains in the second half of the twentieth century. The associated fundamental changes in opportunity structures and values challenged the importance of families of origin for individual life courses, but two research strands suggest enduring within-family reproduction of women's family behavior and work outcomes. We revisit this issue by studying two complementary types of intergenerational associations in women's combined work-family trajectories. On the one hand, we examine similarities across mothers' and daughters' work-family trajectories to address the direct within-family reproduction of female life courses (intergenerational persistence). On the other hand, we examine systematic associations between work-family trajectories that are typical in each generation to address intergenerational interdependencies beyond direct reproduction that account for individual and societal constrains and opportunities that each generation faced (intergenerational correspondence). We use a within-dyad approach to sequence analysis and examine combined work-family trajectories between ages 18 and 35 of two generations of women, born in 1930-1949 and in 1958-1981, within the same family drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Overall, we find evidence of small but nontrivial persistence in work-family trajectories across generations that is partly attributed to within-family mechanisms of reproduction. In addition, we find correspondence across typical trajectory patterns of each generation, without daughters necessarily resembling their mothers' trajectories. The strength of the intergenerational associations varies by social background. Our research improves and broadens our understanding of the reproduction of female life courses across generations.

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Mother-Child RelationsNuclear FamilyAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleGermanyHumansMiddle AgedMothersSocioeconomic FactorsWomen, WorkingYoung AdultGermanyIntergenerational transmissionLife courseSequence analysisWomen

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