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Job-related spatial mobility is a subject of great importance in Europe. But how mobile are the Europeans? What are the consequences of professional mobility for quality of life, family life and social relationships? For the first time these questions are analysed on the basis of the data of a large-scale European survey. This vo l - ume analyses the causes and determinants of job mobility and their individual and societal consequences in cross-national comparison.

Job-related spatial mobility is a subject of great importance in Europe. But how mobile are the Europeans? What are the consequences of professional mobility for quality of life, family life and social relationships? For the first time these questions are analysed on the basis of the findings of a large-scale European survey.The contributions in Volume 1 are directed at the diversity and the extent of mobility in six European countries (Germany, Spain, France, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium).

Exploring how family life has radically changed in recent decades, this comprehensive Research Handbook tracks the latest developments and trends in scholarly work on the family. With a particular focus on the European context, it addresses current debates and offers insights into key topics including: the division of housework, family forms and living arrangements, intergenerational relationships, partner choice, divorce and fertility behaviour.

In this theoretical contribution, we propose a comprehensive and integrative heuristic model to explain fertility, the Model of Dyadic Pathways (MDP). We show how existing models such as the Theory of Planned Behaviour often do not withstand empirical challenges, especially not individual self-reports in qualitative studies. Furthermore, existing models vary in their premises and foci, resulting in a collection of models which do not necessarily align with or supplement one another. For these reasons, these heuristic models have been widely criticised and, in practice, pieced together according to the research question and tradition of the researcher. Against this backdrop, we establish the MDP to reconnect theory with reality and to unify a variety of approaches. The MDP is grounded on the dyad of partners as the prevalent basis of fertility. It integrates reasoned and unreasoned fertility behaviour, the impact of individual- and couple-level life course, soci(et)al conditions, and the body as an "actor". The model explicitly accounts for the variety of different real-life pathways that lead to fertility. It thereby encourages researchers to, first, consider all potentially relevant factors and their mechanisms and, second, think of fertility and its measurement as a multilinear process. Based on the presented elements a comprehensive model of fertility must cover, we suggest ways to improve surveys accordingly. Furthermore, we elaborate on the contributions and challenges the MDP presents to future fertility research.

Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Between Origin and Destination: German Migrants and the Individual Consequences of Their Global Lives -- Chapter 2. Surveying Across Borders: The Experiences of the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Stud -- Part II: Who are the German International Migrants? -- Chapter 3. Structures of German Emigration and Remigration: Historical Developments and Demographic Patterns -- Chapter 4. Brain Drain or Brain Circulation? Economic and Non-Economic Factors Driving the International Migration of German Citizens -- Chapter 5. Comparing the Risk Attitudes of Internationally Mobile and Non-Mobile Germans -- Chapter 6. Settlement or Return? The Intended Permanence of Emigration from Germany Across the Life Course -- Part III: Employment and Social Mobility -- Chapter 7. Affluent Lives Beyond the Border? Individual Wage Change Through Migration -- Chapter 8. Social Origins of German Emigrants: Maintaining Social Status Through International Mobility? -- Part IV: Partner and Family -- Chapter 9. Migration Motives, Timing, and Outcomes of Internationally Mobile Couples -- Chapter 10. Disruption of Family Lives in the Course of Migration: 'Tied Migrants' and Partnership Breakup Patterns Among German (R)emigrants -- Part V: Wellbeing and Health -- Chapter 11. The Happy Migrant? Emigration and its Impact on Subjective Well-Being -- Chapter 12. Healthy Migrants? Comparing Subjective Health of German Emigrants, Remigrants and Non-Migrants -- Part VI: Friends and Social Integration -- Chapter 13. Out of Sight, out of Mind? Frequency of Emigrants' Contact with Friends in Germany and its Impact on Subjective Well-Being -- Chapter 14. Emigration, Friends, and Social Integration: The Determinants and Development of Friendship Network Size After Arrival -- Chapter 15. Sense of Belonging: Predictors for Host Country Attachment Among Emigrants -- Part VII: Survey Design for Internationally Mobile Populations -- Chapter 16. Setting up Probability-Based Online Panels of Migrants with a Push-to-Web Approach: Lessons Learned from the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS) -- Chapter 17. Is There More Than the Answer to the Question? Device Use and Completion Time as Indicators for Selectivity Bias and Response Convenience in Online Surveys.

Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the increasing flows of migration and the internationalisation of individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration across four central domains - employment and income, partners and families, health and wellbeing, as well as friends and social participation - which potentially have far-reaching consequences for social inequalities and life chances. The book showcases results from an innovative probability sample that is representative of German emigrants who recently moved abroad and remigrants who recently returned from abroad and compares their international experiences with the sedentary population in Germany. Stays abroad, whether temporary or permanently, have become the new normal for increasing numbers of people from highly developed welfare states. Unnoticed from mainstream migration studies, these countries are today not only major immigration countries but also important sources of international mobility. By providing an empirically founded prism of the global lives of German migrants, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers of migration, social inequality, and the life course and provides practitioners with insights into these regularly overlooked aspects of international migration.

Despite increasing research, the diversity of role transitions and the interplay between productive roles among older adults are still not adequately understood. This also applies to labor force participation and family care at the transition to retirement. In order to narrow this research gap, this article examines the diversity of transitions/continuities between employment and informal family care among older adults in Germany. Based on role theory and disengagement approach, a typology of transitions/continuities between employment and informal family care was created using data from three waves of the study "Transitions and Old Age Potential" (TOP) over a period of six years (2013-2019). Transitions/continuities between labor market participation and family roles can be described empirically in terms of four main types: role substitution, role expansion, role extension, and dis-/nonengagement. These can be broken down further into subtypes, which reveals the diversity of role transitions/continuities among older adults and suggests different causal relationships. Continuity and fluctuation are found to coexist, with strong evidence for either episodic or gradual/fluid patterns of role transitions. Time commitment in productive roles has a noticeable influence on transition/continuity types. However, the impact of sociodemographic, occupational and personal predictors suggests that labor market-related inequalities and subjective preferences are also influencing the transitions between employment and family care. The findings are innovative in terms of a theory-based typology of role transitions/continuities that offers new insights into the diversity of role transitions and their determinants among older adults not only in Germany, but also in other countries with aging populations.