Dyadic analyses of the effects of atypical work arrangements and employment insecurity on the institutionalization of intimate relationships

• Applicant: Privatdozent Dr. Daniel Baron
• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: since 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 531880894

The central question of this project is how atypical employment constellations of couples - e.g., a man's fixed-term employment and a woman's fixed-term, permanent, or nonemployment - affect perceptions of insecurity and couples' high cost-decisions, such as birth of the first child or marriage. In particular, it will be examined whether a man's fixed-term employment increases a woman's perception of insecurity or whether female's permanent employment reduces male's perception of insecurity. Furthermore, the question arises to what extent employment constellations in which at least one of the partners is employed with a fixed-term contract have a delaying effect on parental high cost-decisions. Additionally, the role of subjective perceptions of insecurity as well as couple-related attitudes such as the subjective relevance of family life or gender role attitudes will be studies. For the empirical analyses, data from the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP) will be used. Statistical analyses will be based on the longitudinal actor-partner interdependence model (L-APIM) as well as event history analyses and panel regressions. So far, the L-APIM has been mostly used in psychological studies, while in family sociology, however, it is still relatively rarely applied. In this respect, the outlined project also provides important methodological impulses for dyadic analyses of partnership attitudes and institutionalization processes in the context of atypical employment.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants