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Title Negotiating the life course : stability and change in life pathways / Ann Evans, Janeen Baxter, editors
Published Dordrecht : Springer, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 234 pages) : illustrations
Series Life course research and social policies ; volume 1
Life course research and social policies ; v. 1.
Contents Introduction / Janeen Baxter and Ann Evans -- The second demographic transition meets globalization: A comprehensive theory to understand changes in family formation in an era of rising uncertainty / Melinda Mills and Hans-Peter Blossfeld -- The standard family life course: An assessment of variability in life course pathways / Elizabeth Thomson, Maria Winkler-Dworak, and Sheela Kennedy -- Generational change in leaving the parental home / Ann Evans -- Relationship pathways and first birth in Australia / Peter McDonald and Anna Reimondos -- Employment and the life course: Birth cohort differences of young Australian women / Jennifer A. Baxter -- Who gets divorced? The social determinants of marital separation over the life course / Belinda Hewitt -- Pathways through the life course: The effect of relationship and parenthood transitions on domestic labour / Janeen Baxter, Belinda Hewitt, Michele Haynes, and Mark Western -- Fatherhood and men's involvement in paid work in Australia / Edith Gray -- Couple strategies: negotiating working time over the life course / Brigid van Wanrooy -- Occupational standing over the life course: What is the role of part time work? / Jenny Chalmers -- Appendix: Negotiating the life course project / Anna Reimondos and Sue Trevenar
Summary Pathways through the life course have undergone considerable change in recent years. Compared to previous generations, young adults today have a much wider range of choices and opportunities, as well as constraints, than in the past. Some of these changes are the result of demographic shifts, such as declining fertility rates, declining marriage rates and increased rates of cohabitation and divorce. Others are the result of shifts in the labour market, the expansion of the educational system, globalization and technological change which have opened up new opportunities and constraints that impact the individual life course and patterns of family formation and dissolution. This book presents findings of longitudinal analyses examining these transitions, from leaving home to retirement, the ways in which individuals and couples negotiate and organise the competing demands of paid and unpaid work during their lives, and the consequences of these arrangements for the division of labour, educational attainment and occupational achievements
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Quality of life -- Longitudinal studies
Social change -- Longitudinal studies
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
Quality of life
Social change
Genre/Form Longitudinal studies
Longitudinal studies
Form Electronic book
Author Evans, Ann (Social scientist), editor.
Baxter, Janeen, editor
ISBN 9781283740975
1283740974
9789048189120
9048189128