@article{MejiaKreyenfeld, author = {Mejia, Cristina Samper and Kreyenfeld, Michaela}, title = {Marriage migration and women's entry into the German labour market}, series = {Journal of Family Research}, volume = {33}, journal = {Journal of Family Research}, number = {2}, doi = {10.20377/jfr-491}, pages = {439 -- 466}, abstract = {Objective: We analyse the employment patterns of childless first-generation migrants to Germany. In particular, we focus on the behaviour of female "marriage migrants". Marriage migrants are defined as individuals who married after their spouse had moved to Germany. Background: Demographic studies have illustrated that marriage migrants have particularly high childbirth rates upon arrival. There is, however, little empirical evidence on how the childbearing behaviour of migrant women is related to their employment behaviour. Method: We use event history techniques to study women's labour market entry after migration in relation to their childbearing behaviour. We draw on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The analytical sample is restricted to immigrant women who moved while childless to Germany between 1990 and 2016 (n=981). Results: Compared to other groups, marriage migrants have very low chances of entering the labour market. Only 32 per cent of the migrants in our sample had ever participated in the labour market in the five-year period after their arrival in Germany. A large share of the differences between these migrants and other migrants can be attributed to the socio-demographic composition of these women, and to their tendency to transition to parenthood soon after their arrival. Conclusion: We argue that the low employment rates of female marriage migrants must also be viewed in the context of Germany's migration policies, which do not provide many routes for female third-country nationals to move to Germany. One of the few available channels is that of marriage migration. We conclude by discussing the social policy implications of these findings at a time when Germany is gradually becoming a dual-earner society.}, language = {en} } @article{Mejia, author = {Mejia, Cristina Samper}, title = {The Interplay Between the Early Work and Family Trajectories of Young Adult Women Born in West Germany: Differences by Parental Origins.}, series = {Journal of International Migration and Integration}, journal = {Journal of International Migration and Integration}, abstract = {Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper employs sequence analysis to identify "typical" early (observation window limited to ages 15 to 30) employment and family formation trajectories among female second-generation migrants in Germany. For the employment domain of the life course, four types of employment trajectories were identified according to their modal states: "long education," "full-time employment," "part-time employment," and "non-employment." For the family domain of the life course, three types of family trajectories were identified: "postponement of family formation," "early family formation," and "early single motherhood." For the analysis on cluster affiliation, a multinomial logistic regression was used to investigate how parental origin relates to jointly determined employment and family trajectories. As expected, the descriptive results showed that trajectories of low labor market participation are highly related to trajectories of early family formation. The categorization by parental origins shows that there were few differences in the trajectories of most native and G2 women groups. One pattern that stood out was that compared to other origin groups, G2 women of Turkish parental origin were more likely to be on an early family formation path, and they were more likely to be on a path with multiple non-employment spells. In the modeling strategy, the remaining differences in the women's patterns were partially explained by the differences in their socioeconomic backgrounds (compulsory school track and the father's professional degree) and their maternal employment role models (the mother's employment when the woman was age 15).}, language = {en} } @techreport{Mejia, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Mejia, Cristina Samper}, title = {Intentions to work of refugee women in Germany: Evidence from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees}, series = {Eltern sein in Deutschland. Materialien zum Neunten Familienbericht.}, journal = {Eltern sein in Deutschland. Materialien zum Neunten Familienbericht.}, editor = {Sachverst{\"a}ndigenkommission des Neunten Familienberichts,}, pages = {111 -- 138}, language = {en} }