Gender and Internal Geographical Mobility in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Family and Employment Over the Life Course
Hanne Gaukel, Roberto Impicciatore, Nazareno Panichella, Antonina Zhelenkova · 2025
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Gaukel and co-authors study how moving to a new region affects jobs for men and women across Europe. Their 2025 study uses life-history data from six countries for people born from the 1930s to the 1960s. It tracks work status before and after each long-distance move, and checks whether family status changes the result.
Men gained better job chances after a move no matter their family state, and the gain kept growing for years. Women gained most when they were single. Mothers gained less than single women, above all in the Mediterranean countries, while the gap was small in Sweden. Moves did not keep dragging mothers down over time, the authors note. The pattern ties job gains from moving to family policy and norms.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hanne Gaukel, Roberto Impicciatore, Nazareno Panichella, Antonina Zhelenkova |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 51 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |