{"title":"Partnerships as signposts? The role of spatial mobility in gendered earnings benefits of graduates","authors":"Jonas Detemple","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100656","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100656","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study analyzes the gender-specific impact of spatial mobility on earnings after graduation from higher education, extending previous research on graduates’ mobility benefits, which has largely ignored gender-specific mechanisms. Based on household economic and gender role considerations, this study argues that partnerships are associated with solidifying gender differences in mobility-related earnings benefits. The study uses data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), Starting Cohort First-Year Students (SC5), and applies entropy balancing weights to account for the self-selection of mobile graduates. General linear models show a weak correlation between overal graduate mobility and higher earnings and that gender differences are rather small and depend on the type of mobility. However, looking at the role of partnerships, female graduates benefit significantly less from short-distance mobility when cohabiting with a partner than their non-cohabiting counterparts, while cohabiting male graduates benefit significantly more from long-distance mobility. The findings contribute to the literature by highlighting the crucial role of partnerships in the gendered mobility benefits of graduates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 100656"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143019794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"School-to-work transition in Chile and Uruguay from the education-occupation linkage perspective","authors":"Agustina Marques Hill , Heike Solga","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100654","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100654","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines school-to-work transitions (STWTs) in Chile and Uruguay, focusing on education-occupation linkages. For the first time, we apply the linkage strength approach to Latin American countries, using cross-sectional household survey data. Since STWT research is highly segregated across the different world regions, we do so in a comparative perspective with France, Germany, and the United States. Although Chile and Uruguay are high-income countries, they still face STWT challenges common to Latin America, such as high levels of informal and agricultural work. However, Chile has higher educational attainment than Uruguay, similar to the comparison countries. Our analysis reveals strong education-occupation linkages not only among higher qualified young adults, but also among low-qualified entrants – thus a “linkage trap” into low-skilled jobs – in Chile and especially in Uruguay. Moreover, unlike in France and Germany, general education provides stronger linkages than vocational programs. Informal employment does not differ significantly from formal employment in terms of linking education to occupations in STWTs. In fact, informal employment is associated with stronger linkages for low-qualified young workers in Uruguay. Furthermore, in Uruguay, strong linkages are associated with lower earnings for both tertiary and less-educated entrants, challenging the positive interpretation of high linkage strength drawn from the comparison countries. Overall, the linkage strength patterns are not as different across the different world regions: Chile’s and Uruguay’s patterns are in some aspects closer to France and Germany than the United States is to either European country.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 100654"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142901381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Turbulent trajectories: Experiences of young adults from refugee and host communities in Lebanon during crises","authors":"Megan Devonald , Nicola Jones , Sally Youssef","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100653","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100653","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Young adults living in Lebanon are experiencing the impacts of compounded crises during a critical juncture in the life course. Transitions into young adulthood are complex, unfolding in diverse ways for each individual. Using the concept of vital conjunctures, and a qualitative longitudinal research approach, this article explores how intersecting economic, political and refugee crises in Lebanon are impacting transitions to young adulthood. It explores three key dimensions of early adulthood transitions: education, income-generation and relationship formation. The data is based on four rounds of in-depth interviews with 18 young Lebanese, Palestinian and Syrian adults, and their caregivers, conducted over a three-year period. The research brings an intersectional perspective by analysing how multiple forms of inequality – including poverty, refugee status and gender discrimination – shape young adults’ experiences of crises. The results show how the economic and social deprivations brought about by the compounded crises in Lebanon have influenced young people’s trajectories in varying but interconnected ways, influencing the complexity and timing of key dimensions of early adulthood. For young women and refugees, restrictive gender norms and legal barriers, respectively, add another layer of complexity, and make it more challenging for young people to reach their goals and aspirations. The findings also point to the severe psychosocial impacts of these disrupted transitions, due to increasing household responsibilities, disrupted social support networks, and an inability to achieve desired aspirations. This research contributes to addressing the limited understanding of young adult transitions in crises contexts, highlighting the severe impacts of interconnected crises on young adults’ trajectories.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 100653"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142866793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sibling similarity in education and employment trajectories at ages 16–19 in the UK: The role of parental influence and individual experiences in early adolescence","authors":"Alina Pelikh, Morag Henderson","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100652","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100652","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Young people’s early education and employment trajectories (EET) hold profound implications for either perpetuating or alleviating social inequalities across the life course. Family background plays an instrumental role in shaping these trajectories, but we have little understanding of how similar or different these trajectories are between siblings and which early adolescent experiences are associated with individual trajectories. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study, this paper explored how individual early adolescent experiences (ages 10–15) influence siblings' EET in late adolescence (ages 16–19). We used a combination of sequence and cluster analysis to create a typology of trajectories, compare these outcomes on three analytic samples <strong>–</strong> the related siblings, conditionally assigned unrelated peers and randomly matched unrelated peers – and then used a multivariable regression approach to determine the extent to which trajectories among siblings are shaped by individual early adolescent experiences. Siblings exhibited a greater tendency to follow similar post-16 EET compared to unrelated peers, including those coming from similar backgrounds, highlighting persistent effects of the family of origin. However, siblings often diverge onto different trajectories, pointing to the role of individual experiences in the process of status attainment within the family. Thus, adolescents’ positive educational aspirations and feeling of family support emerged as significant predictors of favourable EET outcomes. Overall, this study highlights that early life course trajectories and the process of status attainment within the family are shaped by a complex interaction of family circumstances and individual experiences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 100652"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142795878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthias Collischon , Andreas Eberl , Tobias Wolbring
{"title":"Parental well-being when children move out: A panel study on short- and long-term effects","authors":"Matthias Collischon , Andreas Eberl , Tobias Wolbring","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100643","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100643","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article investigates the effect of adult children leaving the parental home on parental well-being. Adult children moving out is an important event in parents' lives. However, it is theoretically unclear whether parental well-being decreases or increases from children moving out. On the one hand, children moving out can relieve parents' burdens and reduce stress exposure affecting well-being positively. On the other hand, it leads to a change in parental roles, with adverse consequences for parental well-being. This study uses long-running panel data (1991–2016) from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to investigate the relationship between child moves and parental well-being using fixed effects dummy impact functions. The findings suggest that differentiating between first and empty nest moves is important when investigating the effects of children moving out of the parental home on parental well-being, as only the first move shows a long-lasting negative effect on parental well-being. Furthermore, the effects are strongest for respondents who have work arrangements in line with traditional gender roles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 100643"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142635732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parental and peer influence on STEM career persistence: From higher education to first job","authors":"Antje Stefani","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100642","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100642","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article investigates social influences that drive gender-specific differences in the degree of persistence individuals exhibit in regard to pursuing science, mathematics, engineering and technology (STEM), both as a field of study and as an occupation. It covers individuals’ careers from entry into higher education to entry into the labor market. Following a life course perspective, I ask the following questions: (1) How stable are preferences regarding STEM subjects and occupations throughout young adulthood? (2) Are significant social ties, such as relations with friends and family members, factors that affect individuals’ persistence in pursuing a STEM career throughout higher education and at entry into the labor market? Based on longitudinal data from the student cohort of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), Starting Cohort 5 (SC5), I find that mothers who have a STEM occupation encourage their daughters to choose a STEM career when the latter enter higher education, but they do not encourage them to choose STEM studies or to choose a STEM occupation when they enter the labor market. Conversely, social factors contribute stronger to the persistence of men: fathers who have a STEM occupation promote sons choosing to pursue a STEM field, and to persist in such a field. Also, I find that support from friends and parents is especially important for men’s persistence in pursuing STEM subjects during higher education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 100642"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142552529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna Amilon , Rikke Fuglsang Olsen , Stine Vernstrøm Østergaard
{"title":"Concentration of disability in families: Intergenerational transmission or assortative mating?","authors":"Anna Amilon , Rikke Fuglsang Olsen , Stine Vernstrøm Østergaard","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100641","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100641","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although studies have established that health and socioeconomic disadvantages often accumulate within families, little is known about the extent to which disability is concentrated within certain families and transmitted across generations. We use retrospective information about growing up with parent(s) or sibling(s) with a disability from the 2020 wave of the representative <em>Survey of Health, Impairment and Living Conditions in Denmark</em> (<em>N</em> = 7709). Building on this data and applying a family life course perspective, we examine if growing up with parent(s) and/or sibling(s) with a disability is associated with 1) having a disability oneself, 2) the probability of having a partner with a disability and 3) the occurrence of disability in the next generation. Our findings demonstrate that the odds of having a disability are higher among individuals who grew up with parent(s) and/or sibling(s) with a disability. While the odds of being partnered are not associated with family members’ disabilities, we find a positive association between having grown up with parents with a disability and having a partner with a disability. Moreover, having a child with a disability is positively associated with one’s own, parents’, siblings’ and partner’s disabilities. We thus conclude that disability is concentrated within certain families and that both intergenerational transmission and assortative mating contribute to this concentration.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 100641"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142515901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sanne Pagh Møller , Andrea Willson , Lau Caspar Thygesen
{"title":"Childhood poverty trajectories and trajectories of healthcare contacts in adolescence and young adulthood","authors":"Sanne Pagh Møller , Andrea Willson , Lau Caspar Thygesen","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100640","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100640","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>In this longitudinal study on Danes born 1980–2000, the objectives were to identify and describe trajectories of childhood poverty and explore their association with trajectories of contacts with the healthcare system.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Children born in Denmark from 1980–2000 were linked to national registers. Parental disposable income information was obtained for each year of the child’s life from 0–16 years. Group-based trajectory modeling was used to identify trajectories of childhood poverty. The outcome was trajectories of contacts with the healthcare system identified with group-based multi-trajectory modeling. The associations between childhood poverty trajectories and trajectories of contacts with the healthcare system were estimated using multinomial logistic regression.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Four distinct groups of childhood poverty trajectories were identified. The largest group (87 %) had very low probability of childhood poverty, and the smallest group (2 %) had high probability of persistent poverty throughout childhood. Two groups experienced either early (5 %) or late (6 %) poverty in childhood. Early and late childhood poverty were associated with higher odds of being in the psychiatric use group in both sexes, and with higher odds of being in the low use and high use groups in women. Persistent poverty was associated with higher odds of being in the low use group and lower odds of being in the high use group and the psychiatric use group in both sexes.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>In conclusion, childhood poverty is associated with healthcare contacts in adolescence and early adulthood in Denmark.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 100640"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142169446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Complex nexus: Economic development, rural-to-urban migration, and transition to adulthood in China","authors":"Yangyu Wang , Felicia F. Tian","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100633","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100633","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Transition to adulthood in low- and middle-come countries (LMIC) has increasingly been diversified and individualized. Economic development and migration are often cited as reasons for diversification but have been analytically examined interactively. To examine the complex linkages between development, migration, and transition to adulthood, we use China data to cover a decade when it has experienced rapid economic development, a large flow of rural-to-urban migration, and changes in the transition to adulthood. Applying the latent class analysis and multinomial logistic regression on the Chinese General Social Survey 2008 and 2017, we obtain three main findings. First, economic development increases the diversification of the transition to adulthood. Second, rural-to-urban migration has a greater impact on the postponement than on other pathways. Third, the joint impact of economic development and migration is not evident: the change do not differ between men and women as well as young adults of different migration experience. These findings collectively imply signs of the diversification of transition to adulthood in China, but also entail the individualization behind it.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 100633"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142127892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mary Kempnich , Ralf Wölfer , Miles Hewstone , R.I.M. Dunbar
{"title":"How the size and structure of egocentric networks change during a life transition","authors":"Mary Kempnich , Ralf Wölfer , Miles Hewstone , R.I.M. Dunbar","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100632","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100632","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While social networks are typically relatively stable in size over time, major changes in life circumstances can result in opportunities to acquire new friends. How young adults manage their relationships with their wider network of friends and family during such transitions is, however, not well understood. Using a prospective longitudinal design, we investigate changes in the size and composition of complete egocentric networks of two cohorts of young adults moving away from home to college. We show that, although networks grow rapidly due to an influx of new friends made at college, the social overload that would result is partially mitigated through the progressive loss of pre-transition friendships (but not family relationships). In addition, most of the new relationships are placed in the outermost, emotionally less close network layers that are less costly to maintain. In contrast, the more intimate inner layers of the network remain stable in size, with efforts being made to conserve these relationships. The overriding importance of face-to-face interaction in creating and maintaining ties (compared to digital media) results in the emotional quality of a tie being traded off against the constraints imposed by physical distance. The most reliable predictor of the proportion of original members with whom relationships were maintained post-transition was pre-transition network size, with weaker effects due to geographical proximity and personal popularity in the new social context. These findings have implications for managing transitions to a new environment at any life stage.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"61 ","pages":"Article 100632"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1569490924000431/pdfft?md5=48cac07e0f3d43e9c4e5f0f61ceb47ab&pid=1-s2.0-S1569490924000431-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141857582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}