Decisions under uncertainty. Planned institutionalization processes among young pairs under the influence of precarious employment

这个项目试图探索在德国不稳定的工作的影响下亲密关系的制度化过程。它聚焦于S夫妇在恋爱中做出的关键决定，这些决定有助于他们的伴侣关系更加紧密。这些决定不仅包括结婚或生孩子的意向，还包括高成本的情况，例如房地产投资。核心论点是，不稳定的工作至少会影响到一个伴侣，这会影响到一段关系中做出的高成本决定。这些决定只能在物质和非物质成本的高风险下做出，因此，正常生活过程的延误是可以预期的。这导致伙伴关系内的制度化进程与夫妻双方均按常规雇用的夫妇相比出现结构性偏差。对于那些至少有一位伴侣在不稳定的工作条件下工作的夫妇来说，这一发展导致了对伴侣关系的“常规传记”的偏离。此外，另一个后果将是伙伴关系内在化的愿望和这样做的实际机会之间的矛盾心理。随着越来越多的非典型就业形式，我们预计标准员工和经济不稳定员工的私人决策将出现越来越大的分歧。主要调查的样本包括1.083人，他们目前生活在一起，共享同一个家庭，即共同生活，分享共同的预算，等等。由于经济和实际原因，只能采访一位合作伙伴，这意味着另一位将被排除在调查之外。

This project seeks to explore the institutionalization process in intimate relationships under the influence of precarious work in Germany. It focuses on the crucial decisions made in a couple´s relationship, which contribute to an intensified level of their partnership. Those decisions include not only the intention to marry or have children but also high-cost situations, as for instance the investment in real estate. The central thesis is that precarious work, which must affect at least one partner, has an impact on high-cost decisions made within a relationship. Those decisions can only be made under a high risk of material and immaterial costs.Thus, a delay of a regular life course is being expected. This leads to a structural deviation in the institutionalization process within the partnership in comparison to couples of which both partners are employed conventionally. For those couples where at least one partner ist employed under precarious work conditions, this development leads to a deviation from a "regular biography" in partnership. Also, another consequence would be ambivalence between the desire for insitutionalization in partnership and the actual opportunity to do so. With the growing number of atypical forms of employment, we expect an increasing divergence in private decisions made by standard employees and economic instable employees. The sample of the main survey includes 1.083 people, who are currently living in a relationship and are sharing the same household, i.e. living together, sharing a common budget, et cetera. For financial and practical reasons, only one partner shall be interviewed, which means that the other one will be excluded from the survey.