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

该项目旨在探索在德国不稳定工作的影响下，亲密关系的制度化过程。它侧重于夫妻关系中做出的关键决定，这些决定有助于加强他们的伙伴关系。这些决定不仅包括结婚或生孩子的打算，还包括高成本的情况，例如房地产投资。其核心论点是，不稳定的工作（至少会影响到一方）会对一段关系中做出的高成本决策产生影响。这些决定只能在物质和非物质成本的高风险下做出。因此，一个正常的生活过程的延迟是预期的。与双方都按惯例雇用的夫妻相比，这导致了伙伴关系内制度化进程的结构性偏差。对于那些至少有一方在不稳定的工作条件下受雇的夫妇来说，这种发展导致了伴侣关系中“常规履历”的偏离。另外，另一个后果是在伙伴关系制度化的愿望和这样做的实际机会之间的矛盾心理。随着非典型就业形式的增加，我们预计标准雇员和经济不稳定雇员在私人决策方面的分歧将越来越大。主要调查的样本包括1.083人，他们目前生活在一段关系中，住在同一个家庭，即住在一起，分享共同的预算，等等。由于经济和实际原因，只对其中一位合伙人进行访谈，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.