Migrant Status and Lone Motherhood – Risk Factors of Female Labour Force Participation in Switzerland

Milewski, Nadja; Struffolino, Emanuela; Bernardi, Laura

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63295-7_7

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“…By contrast, females who migrated alone were at greater psychosis risk, raising the possibility that families provide an important source of social support for this group, potentially buffering acculturative stressors or reducing social isolation (Anjara et al, 2017). This is consistent with evidence suggesting that female migrants entering post-migratory labour markets experience more structural barriers to participation in securing employment (Llácer et al, 2007; Milewski et al, 2018; Riaño and Baghdadi, 2007), a task potentially made more stressful without additional family support (Riaño and Baghdadi, 2007). Migrant women are also more likely to be involved in precarious or exploitative jobs with little opportunity for career advancement (Llácer et al, 2007; Vissandjée et al, 2011).…”

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confidence: 88%

Family networks during migration and risk of non-affective psychosis: A population-based cohort study

Dykxhoorn¹,

Hollander

Dalman

et al. 2019

Schizophrenia Research

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Objective The determinants of increased psychosis risk among immigrants remain unclear. Given ethnic density may be protective, we investigated whether the presence of immediate family, or “family networks”, at time of immigration was associated with risk of non-affective psychosis. Methods We followed a cohort of migrants (n = 838,717) to Sweden, born 1968–1997, from their 14 th birthday, or earliest immigration thereafter, until diagnosis of non-affective psychosis (ICD-9/ICD-10), emigration, death, or 2011. Using record linkage, we measured family network as the presence of adult first-degree relatives immigrating with the cohort participant or already residing in Sweden. We used Cox proportional hazards regression to examine whether risk varied between those migrating with family, migrating to join family, or migrating alone. Results Migrating with immediate family was associated with increased psychosis risk amongst males compared to males who did not migrate with family (adjusted Hazard Ratio [aHR]: 1.16, 95% CI: 1.00–1.34). Migrating with family did not increase risk among females (aHR: 0.91, 95% CI: 0.78–1.07); similar observations were observed for males who immigrated to join family (aHR: 1.35, 95% CI: 1.21–1.51). In contrast, females who migrated alone were at increased risk compared to females who did not migrate alone (aHR: 1.31, 95% CI: 1.11–1.54). Conclusion Family networks at the time of immigration were associated with differential patterns of non-affective psychotic disorders for males and females. These results suggest sex-specific differences in the perceived role of family networks during the migration process.

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confidence: 88%

Family networks during migration and risk of non-affective psychosis: A population-based cohort study

Dykxhoorn¹,

Hollander

Dalman

et al. 2019

Schizophrenia Research

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“…Traditionally, lone mothers were considered as labour market pioneers in Germany (Jaehrling et al, 2015) and their employment rates exceeded those of partnered mothers. This pattern can also be found in other European countries like Switzerland, France and Sweden (Jaehrling et al, 2015;Milewski et al, 2018). Although their employment rates remained quite stable since the 1980s, their full-time employment rates decreased and they lost this pioneering role in the course of the 1990s: Female labour force participation in general rose rapidly, but also a high number of partnered mothers entered the labour market -even though predominantly in (short) part-time (Botsch, 2015).…”

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confidence: 80%

Understanding lone mothers’ high poverty in Germany: Disentangling composition effects and effects of lone motherhood

Hübgen

2020

Advances in Life Course Research

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“…Fourth, we only considered women who cohabited with their partner before the birth of the first child. Although we took into account whether women are no longer cohabiting with their partner, employment trajectories around parenthood may differ among lone mothers (Milewski et al 2018). Fifth, small sample sizes for migrant origin women may have affected the precision of the estimates and significance levels.…”

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Path-Dependencies in Employment Trajectories Around Motherhood: Comparing Native Versus Second-Generation Migrant Women in Belgium

Maes

Wood

Neels

2021

Int. Migration & Integration

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A sizeable body of literature has shown that the migrant-native employment gap is larger among women with children than among childless women, suggesting that the transition to parenthood has a stronger impact on the employment trajectories of migrant origin women compared to those of native women. However, due to the limited use of longitudinal data, our understanding of the mechanisms generating differential employment trajectories around the transition to parenthood remains limited. This study adopts a life course perspective to address path-dependencies in employment trajectories around the transition to motherhood. Using longitudinal data and fixed-effects models that compare within-individual changes in contractual working hours around the transition to parenthood between natives and second-generation migrants of Southern European and Turkish or Moroccan origin in Belgium, we find no migrant-native differentials among women with low employment rates before the birth of their first child and only limited differentials in employment trajectories around parenthood among women with medium and high employment rates before parenthood. This indicates that there is a strong path-dependency of employment trajectories around parenthood for migrant women and natives alike, but that second-generation migrant women generally have a lower pre-birth labour market attachment than native women which accounts for the frequently observed migrant-native differentials in maternal employment.

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Migrant Status and Lone Motherhood – Risk Factors of Female Labour Force Participation in Switzerland

Cited by 13 publications

References 42 publications

Family networks during migration and risk of non-affective psychosis: A population-based cohort study

Family networks during migration and risk of non-affective psychosis: A population-based cohort study

Understanding lone mothers’ high poverty in Germany: Disentangling composition effects and effects of lone motherhood

Path-Dependencies in Employment Trajectories Around Motherhood: Comparing Native Versus Second-Generation Migrant Women in Belgium

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