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Family Demography and Personal Life
I address two challenges to the discipline of family demography from scholars, mostly European, who advocate for the broader concept of personal...
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Transnational Family Relations of German Emigrants
Drawing on unique data from the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study(GERPS), the present book comprises empirical studies on various...
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Gender, Work, and Leisure in Old Age in China and India
This paper examines how paid and unpaid work affects leisure differently for older women and men in China and India. We use data from the World...
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Family Structure, Gender and Education
This chapter focuses on the current characteristics and changing trends of China’s population structure from the perspectives of family, gender and...
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How Relational Conflict Harms Family Firm Performance: The Mediating Role of Family Social Capital and the Moderating Role of Family Ownership
While many researchers suggest that relational conflict has adverse performance effects in family firms, the exact mechanisms through which conflict...
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Models of Family Leisure Time-Use: Implications for Family Interaction, Stress, and Resilience
Since there is a close relationship between the quality of family life and how individuals and families spend their discretionary time, it is...
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Theorising Family Meanings
Good social research is usually informed by theory. In this chapter, Gwenzi draws from both classical and contemporary sociological theories of...
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Parenting Work and Childcare in Contemporary France
This chapter discusses the organisation and divisions of labour of parenting and childcare work in contemporary France. The question of who cares for...
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Women Returning to the Family
The traditional gender division of labor within the family determines the status of couples in the family and society. In most countries around the...
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Parental Support and Family Firm Succession Intention: The Mediation Effect of Next-Generation Members’ Commitment to the Family Firm
Based on data from the Global University Entrepreneurial Students’ Spirit Survey (GUESS) 2018 project, this study examined the relationship between...
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Social reproduction and the family: contradictions of childcare and eldercare in Germany
At the heart of capitalism is a contradiction between capital’s need for value-producing labor, including the commodification of care work and care...
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Small Family, Happy Family? Fertility Preferences and the Quantity–Quality Trade-Off in Sub-Saharan Africa
To design family planning policies in Sub-Saharan Africa that are based on reproductive empowerment instead of reproductive control, knowledge on...
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Family and Sexual Choices
In this chapter, a comprehensive synthesis of the study’s outcomes is presented, along with an exploration of the broader implications within the...
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Parental leave policies, work (re)entry, and second birth: Do differences between migrants and non-migrants in Germany increase?
The paper investigates migrant–nonmigrant differentials over time among women in Germany after their first childbirth; we look at the transitions to...
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Labour, social reproduction, and refugee politics: ‘women’s work’ amongst Hungarian Romani families in Canada
This article analyses the intersections of labour, social reproduction, and refugee politics through an ethnographic case study of Hungarian Romani...
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Social Plurality and Family Identity: On the Evolution of the Business Family Using the Example of Succession in Family Businesses
Family businesses have one very great advantage and one very great disadvantage, and that is the family. A family at...
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Urbanization, female employment, and family care choice
This paper studies new changes in elderly care in urban areas against the background of population aging with data from the China Social Survey 2021....
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Transnational Professional Mothers and Family Care Dilemmas in Santiago and Berlin
This chapter relates the migration of Latin American professional mothers to the practices of reconciling childcare. I present a discussion about...
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To work or to care? Herausforderungen der Herstellung des Alltags von Mehrkindfamilien
In multi-child families, i.e. families with three or more children, social relationships are more complex due to the larger number of members, which...
