Partner relationships, residential relocations and housing in the life course

伴侣关系、住宅重新安置和住房对人们的福祉至关重要，并且众所周知是相互联系的。然而，到目前为止，这种联系的许多方面仍未得到充分的研究或探索：共同居住伙伴关系旁边的分开居住，长期影响，相互因果关系，完整的轨迹而不是一次一个事件，以及背景背景的影响。这项研究的目的是深入了解伴侣关系与住房和住宅搬迁之间的相互作用，因为它们在德国、英国和荷兰的社会和制度背景下通过人们的生命历程发展而发展。我们承认，在相互因果关系和长期与短期影响的意义上，这些相互作用的复杂性。首要的研究问题是：在人们的生命历程中，伴侣轨迹和居住轨迹是如何相互发展的，这些轨迹以及它们之间的相互作用如何与德国、英国和荷兰的背景相关？我们以比平常更全面的方式处理合作伙伴关系。我们不仅研究同居伙伴关系（同居和婚姻），也研究非同居或同居（LAT）关系，除了关系的形成、解除和转变（从LAT到同居），我们还研究关系质量。关于居住轨迹，我们研究了住房的质量和所有权状况（所有者-占用与其他所有权）和重新安置。我们不仅研究人们生活中的关键伙伴关系转变及其与住房变化的关系；我们超越了一次一个生活事件的方法，并分析了个人生活中的伙伴关系和住房变化，以更深入地了解家庭和住房轨迹如何在人们的生活中演变和相互作用。我们将从各种微观层面的理论中推导和检验假设，包括理性选择理论和讨价还价模型，并对福利制度和住房市场的宏观影响提出假设。我们使用了这三个国家的大规模纵向数据集。我们将使用各种标准和先进的纵向方法来分析这些，包括多层次事件历史分析，序列分析和二元模型。我们的研究结果将极大地增强对伴侣轨迹和居住轨迹在相关个体生命历程中的科学洞察力。我们对三种不同国情的关注也是新的。

Partner relationships, residential relocations and housing are crucial to peoples well-being and are known to be connected with each other. Many aspects of this connection, however, have remained under-researched or unexplored thus far: living-apart-together next to co-residential partnerships, long-term effects, mutual causality, full trajectories rather than one-at-a-time events, and the impact of the contextual background.The aim of the research is to gain insight into the interactions between partner relationships on the one hand, and housing and residential relocations on the other, as they develop through peoples life courses and as they are situated in the social and institutional contexts of Germany, the UK and the Netherlands. We acknowledge the complexity of these interactions in the sense of mutual causality and long-term versus short-term effects. The overarching research question is:How do partner trajectories and residential trajectories develop in relation to each other in peoples life courses, and how are these trajectories and the interactions between them related to the contextual backgrounds of Germany, the UK and the Netherlands?We approach partner relationships in a more comprehensive way than usual. We do not only study co-residential partnerships (cohabitation and marriage) but we also investigate non-coresidential or living-apart-together (LAT) relationships, and we address relationship quality besides the formation, dissolution and transformation (from LAT into co-residential) of partnerships. With regard to residential trajectories, we study the quality and ownership status of housing (owner-occupancy versus other tenures) and relocations. We do not only examine critical partnership transitions in peoples lives and their relationships to housing changes; we go beyond the one life-event at a time approach and analyze partnership and housing changes over the lives of individuals to gain a deeper understanding of how family and housing trajectories evolve and interact in the peoples lives.We will derive and test hypotheses from various micro-level theories, including rational-choice theory and bargaining models, and also develop hypotheses on the macro-level impact of welfare regimes and housing markets. We use large-scale longitudinal datasets for these three countries. We will analyze these using a variety of standard and advanced longitudinal methods, including multilevel event history analysis, sequence analysis and dyadic models. Our results will greatly enhance the scientific insight into partner trajectories and residential trajectories in the life courses of linked individuals.Our focus on three different national contexts is also new.