Female Employment after Migration (FEM): A Dynamic Approach to Women’s Work and Family Patterns after Migration

大量的文献已经积累，调查的条件和过程的劳动力市场融合的移民。在这种情况下，女性移徙者往往被视为“受约束的行动者”，其移徙决定从属于养家糊口的男性的行为。然而，这些性别移徙模式如何影响女性移徙者的生命历程，往往没有得到探讨。该项目力求填补这一研究空白的一部分，采用生命历程的方法，研究女性移民的就业决定如何与生命历程中的生育和伴侣关系领域相互交织。这项分析的数据将来自德国社会经济小组（GSOEP）的IAB-移民和难民样本，微型人口普查和综合就业传记样本（IEBS）。我们的分析样本将包括1990-2015年期间最近来到德国的女性移民。我们的项目填补了以下方面的研究空白：首先，我们提供了新的证据，最近的移民的行为的基础上，丰富的纵向数据，已成为德国。其次，我们将研究移民的就业和家庭行为的文献中不相关的部分联系起来。第三，我们调查就业如何与生活过程的其他领域交叉，特别是移徙条件如何跨越时间和影响移民的家庭，就业和贫困动态。

A large body of literature has amassed that investigates the conditions and processes of the labor market integration of migrants. In this context, female migrants have often been viewed as "tied movers" whose migration decision is subordinate to the behavior of the male breadwinner. How these gendered migration patterns influence the life course of female migrants, however, has often been left unexplored. This project seeks to fill parts of this research gap by adopting a life course approach to examine how female migrants’ employment decisions intersect with the fertility and partnership domain of the life course. Data for this analysis will come from the IAB-Migrant and the Refugee Samples of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), the microcensus and the Integrated Employment Biographies Sample (IEBS). Our analytical sample will include the most recent female migrants who have come to Germany in the years 1990–2015. Our project fills a research gap in the following ways: Firstly, we provide novel evidence on recent migrants’ behavior based on rich longitudinal data that has become available for Germany. Secondly, we bridge the rather unrelated strands of literature that examine the employment and family behavior of migrants. Thirdly, we investigate how employment intersects with other domains of the life course, in particular how the conditions at migration span forward in time and influence migrants’ family, employment and poverty dynamics.