Work-family trajectories across Europe: differences between social groups and welfare regimes.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Work and family trajectories develop and interact over the life course in complex ways. Previous studies drew a fragmented picture of these trajectories and had limited scope. We provide the most comprehensive study of early-to-midlife work-family trajectories to date.

Methods

Using retrospective data from waves 3 and 7 of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we reconstructed work-family trajectories from age 15 to 49 among almost 80,000 individuals born between 1908 and 1967 across 28 countries. We applied multichannel sequence and cluster analysis to identify typical trajectories and multinomial logistic regression models to uncover their social composition.

Results

The results revealed six common trajectories. The dominant and

SUBMITTER: Firat M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10720591 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature