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

大量文献研究了移民融入劳动力市场的条件和过程。在这方面，女性移徙者往往被视为“受约束的移徙者”，她们的移徙决定服从于养家糊口的男性的行为。然而，这些按性别划分的移徙模式是如何影响女性移徙者的生命历程的，往往尚未得到探讨。本项目试图通过采用生命历程方法来研究女性移民的就业决定如何与生命历程中的生育和伙伴关系领域相交叉，从而填补这一研究空白的一部分。这项分析的数据将来自德国社会经济小组（GSOEP）的移民和难民样本，微观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年至2015年间来到德国的最新女性移民。我们的项目在以下方面填补了研究空白：首先，我们根据德国已有的丰富的纵向数据，提供了关于近期移民行为的新证据。其次，我们将研究移民就业和家庭行为的相关文献联系起来。第三，我们研究了就业如何与生命历程的其他领域相交，特别是移民条件如何在时间上向前跨越并影响移民的家庭、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.